Commit 5b68d649 authored by Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

Closes #13905: mention rich-comparison methods in addition to __cmp__ when...

Closes #13905: mention rich-comparison methods in addition to __cmp__ when documenting how to make classes comparable and orderable.
parent c2a9dc35
......@@ -189,11 +189,22 @@ such objects are ordered arbitrarily but consistently. The ``<``, ``<=``, ``>``
and ``>=`` operators will raise a :exc:`TypeError` exception when any operand is
a complex number.
.. index:: single: __cmp__() (instance method)
Instances of a class normally compare as non-equal unless the class defines the
:meth:`__cmp__` method. Refer to :ref:`customization`) for information on the
use of this method to effect object comparisons.
.. index::
single: __cmp__() (instance method)
single: __eq__() (instance method)
single: __ne__() (instance method)
single: __lt__() (instance method)
single: __le__() (instance method)
single: __gt__() (instance method)
single: __ge__() (instance method)
Non-identical instances of a class normally compare as non-equal unless the
class defines the :meth:`__eq__` method or the :meth:`__cmp__` method.
Instances of a class cannot be ordered with respect to other instances of the
same class, or other types of object, unless the class defines either enough of
the rich comparison methods (:meth:`__lt__`, :meth:`__le__`, :meth:`__gt__`, and
:meth:`__ge__`) or the :meth:`__cmp__` method.
.. impl-detail::
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