Python interpreter bug

[Robert Kern]

alainpoint at yahoo.fr wrote:
> In fact, i want to sort the list based on the 'allocated attribute' and
> at the same time, test membership based on the id attribute.
> __cmp__ logically implies an ordering test, not an identity test. These
> two notions seems to be confounded in python which is unfortunate. Two
> objects could have the same rank while still being different.

In that case, define __lt__ and __eq__ separately instead of __cmp__.
list.sort() will use __lt__ if it's provided rather than __cmp__.

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