python 3's adoption

[Paul Boddie]

On 27 Jan, 13:26, Xah Lee <xah... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So, for practical reasons, i think a “key” parameter is fine. But
> chopping off “cmp” is damaging. When your data structure is complex,
> its order is not embedded in some “key”. Taking out “cmp” makes it
> impossible to sort your data structure.

What would annoy me if I used Python 3.x would be the apparent lack of
the __cmp__ method for conveniently defining comparisons between
instances of my own classes. Having to define all the rich comparison
methods frequently isn't even as much fun as it sounds.

Paul