how to convert code that uses cmp to python3

[Paul Rubin]

Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> writes:
> Guido chose a different method to implement timers for asyncio. He
> decided to never remove canceled timers.

Oh my, that might not end well.  There are other approaches that don't
need AVL trees and can remove cancelled timers, e.g. "timer wheels" as
used in Erlang and formerly (don't know about now) in the Linux kernel.