Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
Daniel, you're basically on the money. No exception is getting masked. The rich comparison operations for sets are defined as subset/superset operations. So, those operations are not useful for total orderings used by min/max/sorted/bisect/heapq/cmp and tuple comparisons. We can't stop those tools from calling the rich comparisons but we can and do raise a TypeError when cmp() is called directly on two sets. ---------- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3829> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
