A newbie dictionary question

[Greg Ewing]

Jan Vroonhof wrote:
> 
>     def __cmp__(self,other):
>         return self.nospaces() == other.nospaces()

A __cmp__ function is supposed to return -1, 0 or 1 corresponsing
to less than, equal to or greater than. Try it this way:

     def __cmp__(self,other):
         return cmp(self.nospaces(), other.nospaces())

Greg