The basic idea isn't controversial, but there probably would be a lengthy discussion on what to call it (total_ordering is one possibilty) and where to put it (functools is a possibility).

It's not really a *func* tool though. Maybe there should be a classtools module? Can anyone think of other things to put into such a module if it were to exist? If nothing else, the existing classmethod, etc. family could be mirrored out there. -- Carl Johnson