Why aren't OrderedDicts comparable with < etc?

[Sion Arrowsmith]

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.

Since when?

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan  4 2009, 17:40:26)
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
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>>> d1 = dict((str(i), i) for i in range (10))
>>> d2 = dict((str(i), i) for i in range (20))
>>> d1 < d2
True
>>>

(Don't have a 2.6 or 3 to hand.)

Mind you, it makes even less sense for a regular dict than an
OrderedDict. And it's not like d1.items() < d2.items() is a
huge burden, if that's what you want dictionary comparison to
mean.

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