operator.__cmp__

[Erik Max Francis]

Antoon Pardon wrote:

> I still find it a bit inconsistent to have 'cmp' as a builtin and
> 'add' as a function from a module while 'lt' is completly missing.
> I think it would have been better if all associated methods for
> implemeting operators had cousin functions that could be found
> in one single place.

In 2.2.x, at least, there certainly is an operator.__lt__:

>>> import operator
>>> operator.__lt__
<built-in function __lt__>
>>> operator.__lt__(1, 2)
1

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