Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > The ‘cmp’ implementation must decide *at least* between three > conditions... The implementation of ‘__lt__’ and the implementation > of ‘__eq__’ each only need to decide two conditions (true, false).
> If you're saying the latter implementation is somehow *more* expensive > than the former, I think the implementations are suspect What is suspect? It seems natural to be able to distinguish the 3 cases faster than two separate 2-case comparisons. The most obvious example is comparing long strings by scanning left to right. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
