Comparing objects to built-in literals

[Richard Hayden]

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Hi,

Let's say I have a class which does not define __cmp__ or any of the
rich comparison functions and let x be an instance of this class, then
if I do:

x < 2
or x < ['hello']

I get True everytime. Now, I know that when no __cmp__ etc. is defined,
comparison of objects is done on identity (i.e. address), but what is
going on with literals like in these cases?

Thanks,

Richard Hayden.

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[wittempj]

The documentation tells that objects of different type are ordered
arbitrailiy but consistently. You compare a class with an integer and a
list, see : http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/comparisons.html