[Python-Dev] Tuples and underorderable types (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Apr 24 20:31:54 CEST 2009


I'm wondering if there is something we can do to mitigate the issue in a general way. It bites that the venerable technique of tuple sorting has lost some of its mojo. This may be an unintended consequence of eliminating default comparisons.

I would discourage use of the decorate/sort/undecorate pattern, and encourage use of the key= argument. Or, if you really need to decorate into a tuple, still pass a key= argument.

Regards, Martin



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