Strange sorting error message

[Dustan]

I'm hiding some of the details here, because I don't want to say what
I'm actually doing.

I have a special-purpose class with a __cmp__ method all set up and
ready to go for sorting. Then I have a special class that is based on
the builtin type list (though I didn't actually inherit list; I
probably should). When I create an instance with 2 or more items, and
attempt to sort it, I get this strange error message:

>>myList.sort ()

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>" , line 1, in <module>
File "[listModulePath]", line 239, in sort
self.listOfObje cts.sort()
TypeError: an integer is required

The sort method's code is exactly what you see; it's a one-line method.

The only thing I can think of is the __cmp__ method is returning
something other than an integer, which it's not.

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2006-10-06, hanumizzle <ha********@gma il.comwrote:

On 10/5/06, Neil Cerutti <ho*****@yahoo. comwrote:

>It was a joke, based on you hiding what you are doing, he decided
to hide the solution to your problem. Get it?

What if it was for a proprietary software of some kind?

It wasn't sufficiently clear, hence the mild ribbing.

--
Neil Cerutti
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audience. --Church Bulletin Blooper