On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 04:20:43PM +0200, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > 14.12.19 15:29, Steven D'Aprano пише: > >I might be misinterpreting the evidence, but sorting works on objects > >that define `__gt__` without `__lt__`. [...] > The `<` operator try to use `__lt__`, but if it is not defined falls > back to `__gt__`.
Thanks Serhiy, that makes sense. The docs for special methods say that `__gt__` is the reflected version of `__lt__`. Which brings me back to my original question: Since list.sort guarantees that it will only use the `<` less than operator, should we make the same guarantee for sorted, min and/or max? It would be odd if the guarantee applies to list.sort but not sorted. -- 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/TI3ETKHVRC3IHN2IPZDP5MR2AMMYNMNZ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
