Why aren't OrderedDicts comparable with < etc?

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Terry Reedy  <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
>> Jack Diederich  <jackdied at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It isn't an OrderedDict thing, it is a comparison thing.  Two regular
>>> dicts also raise an error if you try to LT them.
>> Python 2.5.2
>>>>> d1 = dict((str(i), i) for i in range (10))
>>>>> d2 = dict((str(i), i) for i in range (20))
>>>>> d1 < d2
>> True
>Try reversing the definitions of d1 and d2. The dicts are probably being 
>compared by id (address), which is the 2.x CPython default.

Like this?

>>> d1 = dict((str(i), i) for i in range (20))
>>> d2 = dict((str(i), i) for i in range (10))
>>> d1 < d2
False
>>> id(d1) < id(d2)
True

I didn't know that comparison for anything other than equality
defaulted to using id. That really is rather broken, and I'm
glad 3.0 fixed it.

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