In <b8f7dea7-0fe3-4e25-9ffd-6796a6e2a...@a37g2000prf.googlegroups.com> alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> writes:
>kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: >> This example convinces me that it was a bad idea to >> get rid of cmp in Python 3, even if situations like this one are >> rare. >It sounds like the entire point of this exercise was to get other >people to confirm your bias for you. The only problem with this hypothesis is that my original bias was exactly the opposite to the one you quote: when I sent my original post I thought that cmp was in fact useless (after all I could not think of a situation that required it or even made it preferable), and was not even aware that it had been dropped in Python 3. Paul Rubin's post convinced me otherwise. BTW, what's with this business of ascribing underhanded motives to me? Earlier some other clown alleged that that my original post was homework??? WTF? kj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
