walterbyrd wrote:Guido and the developers changed the behavior of order comparisons, and hence of sorts, because they agreed, on the basis of person-decades of experience, with no dissent that I know of, that the new behavior would be better.
Have you written any Python code where you really wanted the old, unpredictable behavior?
Would it be better if python lists only accepted one type of data?
Take a look at the array module. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
