Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method

[Stefan Behnel]

Steven D'Aprano, 25.03.2011 06:46:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:32:11 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
>
>> It's probably the least justified builtin other than pow.
>
> I don't know about that. Correctly, efficiently and *quickly*
> implementing the three-argument version of pow is exactly the sort of
> thing that should be in the built-ins, or at least the standard library.

I think that touches it already. We have a "math" module, so why is there a 
*builtin* for doing special math? How much code is there really that only 
uses pow() and does not import "math"?

Stefan