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Tue Nov 2 02:40:05 CET 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-November/105168.html

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 02:37:33PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 10/31/2010 10:55 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
>
>> fact that sets / frozensets can't be sorted in the standard Python way
>> (their less than comparison adheres to the set definition). This is
>> something that will probably surprise many Python developers:
>
> Any programmer who sorts (or uses functions that depend on proper  
> sorting) should know and respect the difference between partial orders,  
> such as set inclusion, and total orders, such as lex order of sequences.  
> So I am surprised by the above claim ;-).

Huh.  Count me out.  I guess I don't live up to your standards.

--titus

p.s. Seriously?  I can accept that there's a rational minimalist argument
for this "feature", but arguing that it's somehow the responsibility of
a programmer to *expect* this seems kind of whack.
-- 
C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu

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