What is the standard way of making a class comparable in Python 3? (For example, by id.)
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What is the standard way of making a class comparable in Python 3? (For example, by id.)
To make classes comparable, you only need to implement
__lt__and decorate the class withfunctools.total_ordering. You should also provide an__eq__method if possible. This provides the rest of the comparison operators so you don’t have to write any of them yourself.