Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method

[Stefan Behnel]

Antoon Pardon, 23.03.2011 14:53:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:59:55PM +0000, 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> How about a list of tuples where you want them sorted first item in ascending
> order en second item in descending order.

You can use a stable sort in two steps for that.

Stefan