On Wed, Oct 17, 2007, Steven Bethard wrote: > > I'm having troubles coming up with things where the *basic* operator > is really a cmp-like function. Even in your example, the cmp function > was defined in terms of "less than". If the basic operator is really > "less than", then why define a cmp() function at all?
>From my perspective, the real use case for cmp() is when you want to do a three-way comparison of a "large" object (for example, a Decimal instance). You can store the result of cmp() and then do a separate three-way branch. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information. _______________________________________________ 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
