Hi all - it would seem that these days, all the cool kids use the sort
function's 'key' kwarg in order to sort a list of custom objects quickly.
Unfortunately, as opposed to using 'cmp', where you can implent __cmp__ to
get 'automatic sorting' in a similar fashion, there doesn't seem to be a
direc
Generally, if I want to know the inheritance tree of a class, I either
use inspect.getmro or __bases__
However, after reading about the new numbers module / class tower in
Python 2.6/3.0, I realized that both of these will fail to show that
the 'float' type actually inherits from numbers.Real:
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