[Python-3000] Need closure on __cmp__ removal

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+1 from me too if you only need to define __lt__ and __eq__ and __le__ and
__gt__, etc, will default to that. If it dosn't default to those, I feel
that one would need to write too many functions.

On Jan 8, 2008 7:12 PM, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 8, 2008 3:55 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > On Jan 8, 2008 2:41 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > > list.sort() and built-in sorted() are the least of our problems: even
> > > though the API uses cmp, the implementation actually only ever uses
> > > '<'; and the preferred API is to use the 'key' argument instead of
> > > passing a compare function; that's much more efficient.
> > >
> > > Maybe we should retire the compare function completely in 3.0?
> > >
> >
> > +1 from me. I personally have always hated the whole, -1, 0, 1 style
> > of comparison anyway.
>
> +1 from here too.  I've found it frustrating that the first argument
> to sort() and sorted() is the least useful. ;-)
>
> Steve
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