Annoying behaviour of the != operator

[Robert Kern]

greg wrote:
> David M. Cooke wrote:
> 
>>>To solve that, I would suggest a fourth category of "arbitrary
>>>ordering", but that's probably Py3k material.
>>
>>We've got that: use hash().
>>[1+2j, 3+4j].sort(key=hash)
> 
> What about objects that are not hashable?
> 
> The purpose of arbitrary ordering would be to provide
> an ordering for all objects, whatever they might be.

How about id(), then?

And so the circle is completed...

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