On Nov 20, 6:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Johannes> Seems it was removed on purpose - I'm sure there was a good > Johannes> reason for that, but may I ask why? > > Start here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg11474.html > > Also, a comment to this blog post suggests creating a CmpMixin: > > http://oakwinter.com/code/porting-setuptools-to-py3k/ > > Skip
Dropping __cmp__ without providing implicit or at least easy explicit [1] total ordering is (was?) a mistake; it opens the door to subtle bugs or redundant boilerplate code. [1] E.g. http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576529/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
