On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 9:12 PM MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> > Although it's true that both programmers and Python might treat 10 as > functionally identical to 10.0, in practice the numbers that are being > added to the list probably come from some code that returns integers > /or/ floats, rather than a mixture. > Yes, exactly. So we can see how the homogeneity assumption is a reasonable one to make; unless you're defining custom compares (uncommon), I don't see where you would ever be sorting a heterogeneous list except for the int/float case.
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