[Python-Dev] Cleaning-up the new unittest API (original) (raw)

C. Titus Brown ctb at msu.edu
Tue Nov 2 02:40:05 CET 2010

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 02:37:33PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:

On 10/31/2010 10:55 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

fact that sets / frozensets can't be sorted in the standard Python way (their less than comparison adheres to the set definition). This is something that will probably surprise many Python developers: Any programmer who sorts (or uses functions that depend on proper sorting) should know and respect the difference between partial orders, such as set inclusion, and total orders, such as lex order of sequences. So I am surprised by the above claim ;-).

Huh. Count me out. I guess I don't live up to your standards.

--titus

p.s. Seriously? I can accept that there's a rational minimalist argument for this "feature", but arguing that it's somehow the responsibility of a programmer to expect this seems kind of whack.

C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu

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