[issue1717] Get rid of more refercenes to __cmp__

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> The idea was to have one implementation of the work-around (a>b) - (b<a)
> instead of 10 or so instances of this snippet in the Python stdlib
> and probably a few hundred places in other code.

But what use-case does it solve, except for making legacy code easier to
port to Py3k?

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