On 27 Jan, 13:26, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So, for practical reasons, i think a “key” parameter is fine. But > chopping off “cmp” is damaging. When your data structure is complex, > its order is not embedded in some “key”. Taking out “cmp” makes it > impossible to sort your data structure.
What would annoy me if I used Python 3.x would be the apparent lack of the __cmp__ method for conveniently defining comparisons between instances of my own classes. Having to define all the rich comparison methods frequently isn't even as much fun as it sounds. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
