Python interpreter bug

[Fredrik Lundh]

alainpoint at yahoo.fr wrote:

> I came accross what i think is a serious bug in the python interpreter.

> Membership testing seems not to work for list of objects when these
> objects have a user-defined __cmp__ method.

it does not work if they have *your* __cmp__ method, no.  if you add
a print statement to the method, you'll figure out why:

        def __cmp__(self,other):
            print "CMP", other.allocated, self.allocated
            return cmp(other.allocated,self.allocated)

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