On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Sean Novick <daddysea...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here is the bit of code my error was refering to: > class phonedb: > > some definitons... > > def lookup(self, string): > list = [] > for key in self.shelve.keys(): > e = self.shelve[key] > if cmp(e, string) == 0: > list.append(e) > return(list) > > where would it tell me to return an int? > > cmp(e, string) is actually just a shortcut for e.__cmp__(string). Again, you should almost never directly call cmp. First of all, newer code should implement the __eq__ method for this, not cmp. Also, you should just use "if e == string" instead of cmp or eq. This isn't java- Python has operator overloading (though it isn't quite as flexible as C++).
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