Message2857

Author	cgroves
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Date	2007-08-30.07:17:08
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This actually isn't a bug. Python added rich comparison methods(__eq__, __gt__, __le__ and so on) in 2.1, and Jython's str uses those in 2.2 instead of __cmp__. CPython exhibits the same behavior. You can get equivalent functionality to __cmp__ with the builtin cmp function: cmp('a', 'b')

This actually isn't a bug.  Python added rich comparison methods(__eq__, __gt__, __le__ and so on) in 2.1, and Jython's str uses those in 2.2 instead of __cmp__.  CPython exhibits the same behavior.  You can get equivalent functionality to __cmp__ with the builtin cmp function: cmp('a', 'b')

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