"Georg Brandl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Yes, but dictionaries had an explicit ordering in dict_compare() which was | deleted.
Is dict_compare something added in 2.5? It is neither a builtin or dict method in 2.4. In any case, this point is that dict ordering is as arbitrary as ordering, for instance, a dict and a string. Since Guido stopped the experiment of totally ordering all objects when complex nums were added, consistency suggests that all fake orderings be eliminated, leaving only the order of numbers, characters, and sequences of comparable objects. Terry Jan Reedy _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
