[Python-3000] Please re-add __cmp__ to python 3000

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 15:41:41 CET 2007


On 11/17/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> > or __cmp__ would
> > have to be extended to support "unordered" as a result.
>
> That's what I think should be done.

Note that this would make it slightly easier to pass a custom sort
function that forced everything to be totally ordered[*], but followed
the standard ordering when one was available.

[*]  yes, it would be possible to trick this function with so that the
end result for a full sequence depended on the order of comparisons.
But that is already true with custom comparisons.

-jJ


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