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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2003-01-14 16:45:04 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2003-01-14 16:45:04 (GMT) |
| commit | 50e92235e7fc7151f591f76b73fb539e34593405 (patch) | |
| tree | e1c2d1d60af81a1883735afe670e760b87e7a7a6 /Misc | |
| parent | 8bb90a59a641979385f063249143a05a6198725e (diff) | |
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Explicitly raise an exception in __cmp__ -- this clarifies that cmp()
is not supported on sets. (Unfortunately, sorting a list of sets may
still return random results because it uses < exclusively, but for
sets that inly implements a partial ordering. Oh well.)
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@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ Extension modules Library ------- +- The sets module now raises TypeError in __cmp__, to clarify that + sets are not intended to be three-way-compared; the comparison + operators are overloaded as subset/superset tests. + - Bastion.py and rexec.py are disabled. These modules are not safe in Python 2.2. or 2.3. |