sorting a dictionary

[Alex Martelli]

Mel Wilson wrote:
   ...
>    What would that look like?  (Python 2.1.3 dies
> comparing a complex against a string.)
> 
> 
> def square_peg_vs_round_hole (a, b):

This implementation raises an exception when you try
to compare (e.g.) lists whose first items are a
complex and any number respectively (because it falls
back to cmp for this case and cmp cannot know it
needs to call square_etc recursively for lexical
comparisons of sequences).  Reimplementing all of
cmp is quite a bother...


Alex