Comparison function as class method: how?

[Peter Hansen]

Jeff Stewart wrote:
> 
> That helps a lot.  But what is the D-S-U idiom?
> 
> And how is someone supposed to know about staticmethod()?  I couldn't find
> it anywhere in the Tutorial, Language Reference Index, or Library Reference
> Index.  Is there a better place to go for documentation?

Decorate-Sort-Undecorate.  

By the way, posting your problem code would go a long way to helping get
a simple answer.  Any time you get a traceback, posting the code that
generated it and the traceback itself will generally get you a fix right
away.

-Peter