bisect uses __cmp__()?

[Gary Robinson]

[Tim Peters]
> Well, it doesn't use __cmp__ directly now, and never has:  it uses Python's
> infix "<" operator.  While not documented, it's deliberate that bisect
> *only* uses "<", so that instances of a class implementing only __lt__ can
> use bisect.

OK, but why is it undocumented that bisect uses it, and that CPython's
list.sort() uses it? I still don't know if I can write code that is based
using __lt__ to define a sort order and be justified in assuming it will
work in the future.

I can't see much downside in making that behavior well-defined in the
docs...?

 
--Gary

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