[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In fact, i want to sort the list based on the 'allocated attribute' and > at the same time, test membership based on the id attribute. > __cmp__ logically implies an ordering test, not an identity test. These > two notions seems to be confounded in python which is unfortunate. Two > objects could have the same rank while still being different.
In that case, define __lt__ and __eq__ separately instead of __cmp__. list.sort() will use __lt__ if it's provided rather than __cmp__. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
