[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why is it that a membership test needs to call the __cmp__ method?
because the membership test has to check if the tested item is a member of the sequence. if it doesn't do that, it's hardly qualifies as a membership test. from the reference manual: For the list and tuple types, x in y is true if and only if there exists an index i such that x == y[i] is true. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list