What happened to __cmp__() in Python 3.x?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Aug 16 07:39:40 EDT 2009


Xavier Ho wrote:

> I'm really looking for a way to set up Python classes' natural ordering 
> for sorting purposes.

I believe __lt__ (<) is the only method (operator) used by both .sort 
and heap module.




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