Josiah Carlson schrieb: > Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Guido van Rossum schrieb: >> > I haven't taken any action, and it looks like __cmp__ isn't being >> > called. I'd rather not add it back; if you want it back, could you at >> > least write up a brief PEP? A patch would also help; I recall that it >> > was quite a relief being able to cut it out, so I expect that patching >> > it back in would be quite cumbersome. >> >> BTW, was it intentional that dicts can't be compared via ">" and "<" >> anymore? > > Being that dictionaries are *unordered* mappings of keys to values, is > there an ordering on dictionaries that makes any sense? If I understand > the changes in comparisons correctly, the point is to remove a total > ordering on all Python objects, as it is currently broken. For objects > that have no reasonable ordering (imaginary vs float, tuples vs unicode, > set vs. set, etc.), the only comparisons that return anything useful are > x == y and x != y.
Yes, but dictionaries had an explicit ordering in dict_compare() which was deleted. Georg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
