Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
> That sort currently uses __lt__ only is, in my opinion, an implementation > detail. Its only an implementation detail until the language specification defines it as a guarantee of the language. Then it becomes part of the sorting API. Personally, I think it is a nice feature that sorting works for objects which define only __lt__, and it sounds like Tim is happy for that to be part of the sort API. This is documented under list.sort() but not sorted(): https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list.sort https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#sorted Rather than removing it from the HOWTO, I would rather document that fact under sorted() as well. If you still want to argue that we should not document this as a language guarantee, for the sake of other implementations such as Jython and IronPython, you should raise it on Python-Dev. It would probably help if you had other implementation maintainers state that this was a burden on them. For what it is worth, it seems that Jython 2.5 supports this feature too. ---------- nosy: +steven.daprano _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35654> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
