On 23/08/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Coerce is definitely dead. > > cmp() is still alive and __cmp__ is used to overload it; on the one > hand I'd like to get rid of it but OTOH it's occasionally useful. So > it'll probably stay. However, to overload <, == etc. you *have* to > overload __lt__ and friends.
Thanks. In particular, thanks for the comment about overloading < etc - that's what I was looking at, and I was wondering about using __cmp__ to save some boilerplate. You saved me some headaches! Paul. _______________________________________________ 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
