Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 5/11/06, Vladimir 'Yu' Stepanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If for Python-3000 similar it will be shown concerning types >> str(), int(), complex() and so on, and the type of exceptions >> will strongly vary, it will make problematic redefinition of >> behavior of function of sorting. > > Not really. We'll just document that sort() should only be used on a > list of objects that implement a total ordering. [...]
It might be useful in some cases to have a keyword argument to sort/sorted that says to ignore exceptions arising from comparing elements, and leaves the ordering of non-comparable values undefined. -Edward _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
