On 10/17/07, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having troubles coming up with things where the *basic* operator > is really a cmp-like function.
Here's one. When implementing the '<' operator on lists or tuples, you really want to call the 'cmp' operator on the individual items, because otherwise (if all you have is == and <) the algorithm becomes something like "compare for equality until you've found the first pair of items that are unequal; then compare those items again using < to decide the final outcome". If you don't believe this, try to implement this operation using only == or < without comparing any two items more than once. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
