Separating __cmp__ from < and > ?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrn8ph4ba.u2.hzhu at rocket.knowledgetrack.com>,
Huaiyu Zhu <hzhu at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>In many situations it is conceptually possible to have a!=b without either
>a<b or a>b.  Mathematically, this is the case for objects that live in a
>partially ordered space.

Right.  Problem is, though, that if you have a list of such objects and
someone does list.sort(), you need to have a way of evaluating the sort
order.  My suggestion to you is that you define a new set of methods for
these objects.
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