On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:06 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > I think I've found a solution: > > class NegStr: > def __init__(self, value): > self._value = value > def __lt__(self, other): > return self._value > other._value
IOW: cmp_to_key(lambda x, y: -cmp(x, y)) This is still just taking a cmp function and dressing it up as a key. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list