Re: Comparison of functions
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Re: Comparison of functions

From: Adriano Varoli Piazza <moranar@alice.it>
Date: Sat Jul 30 2005 - 19:57:20 CEST

Steven D'Aprano ha scritto:

> Do you understand the difference between partial and total ordering, or
> weakly and strongly ordered? When you do understand them, come back and
> tell me again whether you still think lexicographic sorting has no meaning
> whatsoever.
>

I think I answered this in another post... If you want to order text
strings (as complex numbers in an index in a book, or in a lexicographic
sort are) do so. I understand the importance it has to you, but it's
hardly reasonable to argue that Python should do the most unintuitive
thing with complex numbers by default just because it suits you.

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Received on Thu Sep 29 17:16:12 2005