On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> writes: >> You couldn't do this with a __future__ import because those must be >> confined to the importing module and are therefore generally limited >> to syntax changes. > > In principle, it could be a syntax change to the < operator (etc) to > cause it to try to call a different method first, same as division and > the / operator. That'd be a bit heavyweight to do this late in the > Python 2 cycle though.
And it also wouldn't change the behavior of list.sort. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list