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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients ethan.furman, gvanrossum, josh.r, serhiy.storchaka, steven.daprano, terry.reedy, veky, xtreak
Date 2020-03-11.19:50:30
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No.

First, it is impossible. nb_bool and PyObject_IsTrue() can return only three value: 1 for true, 0 for false, and -1 for error. It is not possible to represent NotImplemented without breaking all extensions.

Currently

    if not a:
        b()
    else:
        c()

is equivalent to

    if a:
        c()
    else:
        b()

If a is NotImplemented, what branch be executed in every case?

Second, it would not help. Because real-world examples are not always so trivial as "return not self.__lt__(other)". It may be a part of more complex expression, e.g.:

    return super().__eq__(other) and self.attr == other.attr

So it may help in some examples, but make bugs in other examples even more mystical.
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