How to determine what called __cmp__ method?

[Erik Max Francis]

Pearu Peterson wrote:

> The question is how to determine inside __cmp__ method where it was
> called? That is I want to know was it called for evaluating
> either inequality '<', or '>', or '<=', or ...?

Why would you need to do that?  The purpose of the __cmp__ method is to
avoid such issues.  I submit that if you _really_ need to know which
operation was being requested, there's something wrong with either your
algorithm, your design, or both.

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