Inequality operators and sorting in Python

Question

I have a collection (list) of objects. I want to be able to sort the objects without having to provide a callback (lambda function) to sorted() but instead, by implementing functions that could be used to ascertain strict (in)equality between objects of the same type - ala C++.

The __eq__() function implemented on a class allows equality checks. I can't seem to find any similar functions to implement < and >

How may I implement this in Python?

Answer 1

http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#basic-customization

You're looking for

__lt__() and __gt__() 

(it's down just a tad under that link).

Answer 2

Via __lt__() and __gt__().