how to convert code that uses cmp to python3

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be>:

> Well having a list of 1000 Sequence like object. Each sequence
> containing between 1 and 100 numbers. Comparing each sequence
> to each other a 100 times. I get the following results.
>
> Doing it as follows:
>     seq1 < seq2
>     seq2 < seq1
>
> takes about 110 seconds.
>
> Doing it like this:
>     delta = cmp(seq1, seq2)
>     delta < 0
>     delta > 0
>
> takes about 50 seconds.

Looks like a completely artificial scenario.


Marko