George Sakkis wrote: > "Rocco Moretti" wrote: > > >>One way to handle that is to refuse to sort anything that doesn't have a >>"natural" order. But as I understand it, Guido decided that being able >>to sort arbitrary lists is a feature, not a bug. > > > He has changed his mind since then > (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/045111.html) but > it was already too late.
The indicated message sidesteps the crux of the issue. It confirms that arbitrary *comparisons* between objects are considered a wart, but it says nothing about arbitrary *ordering* of objects. None > True --> Wart [None, True].sort() --> ???? The point that I've been trying to get across is that the two issues are conceptually separate. (That's not to say that Guido might now consider the latter a wart, too.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
