The list.sort method is documented to only use less than: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list.sort
but I don't think that is correct, it seems to use greater than if it exists and less than doesn't. My understanding is that items need to define one of l.t. or g.t. to make it sortable, not the full complement of six rich comparison methods. The same seems to be the case for sorted, min and max, but none of them have documented that fact: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#max https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#min https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#sorted Should we document that all four functions will use l.t. if it exists, otherwise g.t. if it exists, but don't need both? -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/5AQMG6ADD6RGPLI3VTILB2MKXMBFTIGU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
