[issue1717] Get rid of more refercenes to __cmp__
Marc-Andre Lemburg
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Dec 9 17:45:28 CET 2008
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:
On 2008-12-09 16:06, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
>
>> The idea was to have one implementation of the work-around (a>b) - (b<a)
>> instead of 10 or so instances of this snippet in the Python stdlib
>> and probably a few hundred places in other code.
>
> But what use-case does it solve, except for making legacy code easier to
> port to Py3k?
It implements the DRY principle.
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