David A. Wheeler wrote: > Greg Ewing stated "Why not provide a __richcmp__ method that directly connects > with the corresponding type slot?
> It _seems_ to me that this is the same as "__cmp__", No, it's not -- a __richcmp__ method would take an extra argument specifying which of the six comparison operations to perform, and return a boolean instead of -1, 0, 1. Giving it the same name as the old __cmp__ would be confusing, I think. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
