[Python-Dev] Tuples and underorderable types

[Raymond Hettinger]

Does anyone have any ideas about what to do with issue 5830 and handling the problem in a general way (not just for sched)?

The basic problem is that decorate/compare/undecorate patterns no longer work when the primary sort keys are equal and the secondary 
keys are unorderable (which is now the case for many callables).

    >>> tasks = [(10, lambda: 0), (20, lambda: 1), (10, lambda: 2)]
    >>> tasks.sort()
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    TypeError: unorderable types: function() < function()

Would it make sense to provide a default ordering whenever the types are the same?

    def object.__lt__(self, other):
            if type(self) == type(other):
                 return id(self) < id(other)
            raise TypeError


Raymond