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Tim Peters wrote:
> [Christian Reis]
>

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>>It seems you can't compare ExtensionClass with basic types; in Python
>>2.1.3 at least it appears to me that try_3way_compare doesn't want to
>>call tp_compare on the second instance because it's not a PyInstance.
>
>
> Possibly so. I don't think anyone really understands the details of
> ExtensionClass except for Jim (Fulton), and his understanding was fresh
> years ago -- ExtensionClass isn't part of Python, it's part of Zope.


ExtensionClass is a type. There's this funny rule for types and
__cmp__ that __cmp__ is only called for types when:

- Comparing objects of the same type or

- One of the types is a number.

Otherwise, Python falls back to address comparison.

This rule is really annoying. You can get around this, as I recall
by implementing some numeric methods (e.g. __nonzero__). That will make
Python call EC's __cmp__ more often.

__cmp__ should be deprecated. Unfortunately, EC doesn't support rich comparisons.
The good news is that soon, ZODB3 will support new-style classes.

Jim

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