15.12.19 12:27, Steven D'Aprano пише:
Since list.sort guarantees that it will only use the `<` less than
operator, should we make the same guarantee for sorted, min and/or max?
Perhaps. And also for heapq and maybe some other functions. Do you mind
to create a PR?
It is common to make generi
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 04:20:43PM +0200, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> 14.12.19 15:29, Steven D'Aprano пише:
> >I might be misinterpreting the evidence, but sorting works on objects
> >that define `__gt__` without `__lt__`.
[...]
> The `<` operator try to use `__lt__`, but if it is not defined falls
On 14/12/2019 15.20, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> 14.12.19 15:29, Steven D'Aprano пише:
>> I might be misinterpreting the evidence, but sorting works on objects
>> that define `__gt__` without `__lt__`.
>>
>> py> class A:
>> ... def __init__(self, x): self.x = x
>> ... def __gt__(self, other):
14.12.19 15:29, Steven D'Aprano пише:
I might be misinterpreting the evidence, but sorting works on objects
that define `__gt__` without `__lt__`.
py> class A:
... def __init__(self, x): self.x = x
... def __gt__(self, other): return self.x > other.x
...
py> L = [A(9), A(1), A(8)]
py> L.
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 02:40:04PM +0200, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> 14.12.19 12:45, Steven D'Aprano пише:
> >The list.sort method is documented to only use less than:
> >
> >https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list.sort
> >
> >but I don't think that is correct, it seems to use greater t
14.12.19 12:45, Steven D'Aprano пише:
The list.sort method is documented to only use less than:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list.sort
but I don't think that is correct, it seems to use greater than if it
exists and less than doesn't. My understanding is that items need to
de
