"Rocco Moretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The "wackyness" I refered to wasn't that a list of complex numbers isn't > sortable, but the inconsistent behaviour of list sorting. As you > mentioned, an arbitraty collection of objects in a list is sortable, but > as soon as you throw a complex number in there, you get an exception.
This 'wackyness' is an artifact resulting from Python being 'improved' after its original design. When Guido added complex numbers as a builtin type, he had to decide whethter to make them sortable or not. There were reasons to go either way. ... and the discussion has continued ever since ;-) Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
