[Tutor] Best way to define comparison

[Kent Johnson]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Tiago Katcipis <katcipis at inf.ufsc.br> wrote:
> ive been reading and really seens to be better to use cmp... i will not have
> to write a method to every single operator. But when python compare
> objects...like in Sets or Lists...to check for membership etc, it uses cmp
> ou eq?

It uses __eq__() if it is defined, otherwise __cmp__()
http://docs.python.org/ref/customization.html

Kent

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