Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > greg wrote: >> David M. Cooke wrote: >> >>>>To solve that, I would suggest a fourth category of "arbitrary >>>>ordering", but that's probably Py3k material. >>> >>>We've got that: use hash(). >>>[1+2j, 3+4j].sort(key=hash) >> What about objects that are not hashable? >> The purpose of arbitrary ordering would be to provide >> an ordering for all objects, whatever they might be. > > How about id(), then? > > And so the circle is completed...
Or something like def uniquish_id(o): try: return hash(o) except TypeError: return id(o) hash() should be the same across interpreter invocations, whereas id() won't. -- |>|\/|< /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |David M. Cooke |cookedm(at)physics(dot)mcmaster(dot)ca -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list