comparing str's with ints

[Andrew Dalke]

Kragen:
>Thus, heterogeneous collections are sortable.  This might be a wart;
>once, couldn't raise exceptions, and now we're stuck with its old
>behavior in this case for compatibility.  It's kind of nice that
>heterogeneous collections are sortable, though.

Nice perhaps, but not true.

>>> a = [1, 1j]
>>> a.sort()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: cannot compare complex numbers using <, <=, >, >=
>>>

                    Andrew
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