Sorting a list with entries of unequal types

[Ben Finney]

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:

> And complex numbers, and probably some other things, cannot be sorted
> even in Python2. Universal sorting is a broken idea, so Python3 leaves
> it to you to say what *you* mean.

Okay. I guess I'd better figure out what that is, for this code base,
before porting it to Python 3 :-)

Thanks for the helpful responses.

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