[issue44605] functools.total_ordering doesn't work with metaclasses

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

> If the preference is to not support this use-case ,,,

I don't really have a preference.  Was just letting you know the pros and cons.  I'll put together a PR with the "type(self).__lt__(self, other)" substitutions.  Let me know if that is the outcome you want.

> Wait, is the suggestion here that @total_ordering
> is not suitable for production?

It works fine, but as noted in the docs, the indirect code isn't as good as just writing-out the methods by hand.

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