Python 3.0 - is this true?

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

Terry Reedy writes:
> If you want to duplicate 2.x behavior, which does *not* work for all
> types...
>
> def py2key(item): return (str(type(item)), item)

Nope.
  sorted((-1, 2, True, False))             == [-1, False, True, 2]
  sorted((-1, 2, True, False), key=py2key) == [False, True, -1, 2]
Might often be good enough though.  But uses more memory.

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Hallvard