Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method

[Stefan Behnel]

Westley Martínez, 25.03.2011 14:39:
> On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 07:11 +0100, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> 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"?
>
> pow() and math.pow() are different.

I don't find that a good excuse for pow() being a builtin. Why not just 
rename it to "math.powmod" instead?

Stefan