name : total_ordering.py """ For Python < 2.7.2. total_ordering in versions prior to 2.7.2 is buggy. See http://bugs.python.org/issue10042 for details. For these versions use code borrowed from Python 2.7.3. From django.utils. """ import sys if sys.version_info >= (2, 7, 2): from functools import total_ordering else: def total_ordering(cls): """Class decorator that fills in missing ordering methods""" convert = { '__lt__': [('__gt__', lambda self, other: not (self < other or self == other)), ('__le__', lambda self, other: self < other or self == other), ('__ge__', lambda self, other: not self < other)], '__le__': [('__ge__', lambda self, other: not self <= other or self == other), ('__lt__', lambda self, other: self <= other and not self == other), ('__gt__', lambda self, other: not self <= other)], '__gt__': [('__lt__', lambda self, other: not (self > other or self == other)), ('__ge__', lambda self, other: self > other or self == other), ('__le__', lambda self, other: not self > other)], '__ge__': [('__le__', lambda self, other: (not self >= other) or self == other), ('__gt__', lambda self, other: self >= other and not self == other), ('__lt__', lambda self, other: not self >= other)] } roots = set(dir(cls)) & set(convert) if not roots: raise ValueError('must define at least one ordering operation: < > <= >=') root = max(roots) # prefer __lt__ to __le__ to __gt__ to __ge__ for opname, opfunc in convert[root]: if opname not in roots: opfunc.__name__ = opname opfunc.__doc__ = getattr(int, opname).__doc__ setattr(cls, opname, opfunc) return cls