What methods need to be overridden/implemented when making user-defined classes sortable and/or hashable in python? What are the gotchas to watch out for? I type dir({}) into my interpreter to get a list of methods on built-in dicts. Of those, I assume I need to some implement some subset of ['__cmp__', '__eq__', '__ge__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__ne__'] Is there a difference in which methods must be implemented for Python3 as opposed to Python2? Continue reading...
