[Python-Dev] total ordering.

[Guido van Rossum]

On 5/11/06, Vladimir 'Yu' Stepanov <vys at renet.ru> wrote:
> If for Python-3000 similar it will be shown concerning types
> str(), int(), complex() and so on, and the type of exceptions
> will strongly vary, it will make problematic redefinition of
> behavior of function of sorting.

Not really. We'll just document that sort() should only be used on a
list of objects that implement a total ordering. The behavior
otherwise will simply be undefined; it will raise whatever exception
is first raised by an unsupported comparison (most likely TypeError).
In practice this won't be a problem.

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