12 years of Python and only at v2.2

[Erik Max Francis]

Tim Peters wrote:

> That is, you don't need reals, you just need lexicographic ordering on
> tuples.

Oh, of course.  I was speaking of the rigorous mathematical case, where
you'd have to define a mapping into the reals.  In mathematics, you
don't even have orderings defined over n-tuples, much less m- and
n-tuples, where m != n.  Even Python tips its hat to this fact, since
doing ordering comparisons on complex numbers raises an exception.

I was speaking abstractly about mathematics, not about Python.

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