walterbyrd wrote:
> I have read that in Python 3.0, the following will raise an exception:
>
>>>> [2, 1, 'A'].sort()
>
> Will that raise an exception?
Yes.
>>> [2, 1, "a"].sort()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unorderable types: str() < int()
> And, if so, why are they doing this? How
> is this helpful? Is this new "enhancement" Pythonic?
Is 1 > "A"? Is ord("B") > "A", "11" > 10?
What happens for sorted([datetime.time(), "now"])?
As the Zen puts it:
"In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess."
So yes, I think this is an enhancement, and a pythonic one.
Peter
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