Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method

Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmichel at sequans.com
Mon Mar 14 07:10:27 EDT 2011


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The removal of cmp from the sort method of lists is probably the most 
> disliked change in Python 3. On the python-dev mailing list at the 
> moment, Guido is considering whether or not it was a mistake.
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> If anyone has any use-cases for sorting with a comparison function that 
> either can't be written using a key function, or that perform really 
> badly when done so, this would be a good time to speak up.
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You seem concerned by this removal, do you have any use-case ?

JM



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