strange behavior of the comparison operator

[Nicolas Evrard]

Hello everyone, this is my first post to the list and let me say that I
find python really exciting ... Looks a bit like scheme but is fast and
have a large community of users ...

Here 's what I've done :

To try the __comp__ method I've done a class for complex number (the usual
example). But here are the result I've got :

>>> Complex(7,2).__comp__(Complex(3,4))
1
>>> Complex(7,2) < Complex(3,4)
1

the definition of __comp__ I've done :

    def __comp__(self, other) :
        if self.r < other.r :
            return -1
        elif self.r == other.r :
            if self.i < other.i :
                return -1
            elif self.i == other.i : return 0
        else : return 1

But in the reference manual it says that __comp__ should return a positive
integer if self > other ... and obviously it isn't the case.

BTW i'm using python 1.5.2

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