Re: [sage-devel] "sorted" is not portable!?!

2010-09-01 Thread Mike Hansen
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Simon King wrote: > Any idea why sorted has become machine dependent? It's always been somewhat machine dependent -- see http://yz.mit.edu/wp/default-behavior-of-pythons-cmp/ . --Mike -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsu

[sage-devel] "sorted" is not portable!?!

2010-09-01 Thread Simon King
Hi! The following happens with Sage-4.5.2 sage.math: sage: L = [(360, {}), (2520, {0: 'X'}), ('prime', 3)] sage: sorted(L) [(360, {}), (2520, {0: 'X'}), ('prime', 3)] bsd.math: sage: L = [(360, {}), (2520, {0: 'X'}), ('prime', 3)] sage: sorted(L) [('prime', 3), (360, {}), (2520, {0: