Separating __cmp__ from < and > ?

[Erik Max Francis]

Aahz Maruch wrote:

> 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.

Sure, but if someone calls sort on a list of objects that don't have a
well-ordering, they're up the creek anyway.

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