How to Build Comparable Classes in Python

Basic tutorial on how to make class instances comparable and sortable

Lev Maximov
Better Programming
Published in
4 min readApr 1, 2022

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Pretty often you’d want to make instances of a user-defined class comparable.

Suppose you need to test that your function returns the correct value. If that value happens to be an object of some class, you can run into a surprise:

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