Re: [Python-Dev] Sorting

2017-04-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 02:30:06AM +0200, Oleg Broytman wrote: >Sorry, let me pour a bit of cold water here. Recently I was busy > porting a few big and small (but complex) programs to Python 3 and was > sending thousands curses every day. str=>unicode is the biggest change > but not the most

Re: [Python-Dev] Sorting

2017-04-05 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 01:36:38PM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: > Just want to drop a note and say THANK YOU to everyone for the work in > improving Python to the 3 branch. > > And if you're curious as to why: I just spent three hours trying to figure > out why my comparisons were succeeding whe

[Python-Dev] Sorting

2017-04-05 Thread Ethan Furman
Just want to drop a note and say THANK YOU to everyone for the work in improving Python to the 3 branch. And if you're curious as to why: I just spent three hours trying to figure out why my comparisons were succeeding when they should be raising exceptions -- and then remembered that in 2.x t