[egenix-users] cmp() function

[Dirk Holtwick]

M.-A. Lemburg schrieb:
> No. In fact, the cmp() function was named deliberately after
> the builtin one. Falling back to the system one would only
> hide a programming error.

Well, finding such a programming error is hard. I didn't expect DateTime
to override the cmp() function and was quite irritated when I tried to
implement an own sorting algorithm. Now that I know it, I can live with
this function ;-)

> In summary: You should never do "from mx.DateTime import *" -
> that's bad style :-)
> 
> I tend to always write:
> 
> from mx import DateTime
> ...
> d = DateTime.now()
> 
> Makes reading the code a lot easier too, esp. if you regularly
> work with or on large frameworks

Okay, looks nicer and is more expressive. I agree. But I like the "bad
style" too and as far as I know it is still allowed ;-)

Bye, Dirk

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