On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 20:43, cool-RR
Hello, Today I was trying to use `total_ordering` for the first time. I was expecting that in order to implement e.g. `x > y` it would do `not x < y and not x == y`, assuming that `__lt__` and `__eq__` are defined. But I see it just does `y < x`, which is problematic. For example if you have a class that is decorated by `total_ordering`, and implements only `__lt__` and `__eq__`, then trying to do `x < y` will result in infinite recursion. Why not have `total_ordering` work in the way I suggested?
This has been partly fixed for Python 3.2, although it can still happen if you compare two types that both use the total_ordering decorator. See http://bugs.python.org/issue10042 . -- Lennart Regebro: http://regebro.wordpress.com/ Porting to Python 3: http://python3porting.com/