[Python-3000] Total ordering and cmp (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 21 23:16:32 CET 2007

Adam Olsen wrote:

On 3/20/07, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've used a key() method quite successfully in my own code. Maybe > we should provide a mixin like::

This seems to match what I've usually needed, but I'm not sure it's worth putting in python proper.

In addition to this, what about the idea of a Python-level richcmp method? It would provide a single point of override for classes that wanted to use it, and it shouldn't upset any default behaviours since it's just exposing what's there at the C level anyway.

-- Greg

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