Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Thanks for submitting a patch.
I'm sorry, but I don't think this is the right approach. I will likely keep the current functions as they are now. Under no circumstances do I want to add any overhead to the existing functions (they serve performance critical roles in high performance async tools such as Tornado). Instead, I'm considering alternatives such as a second set of functions that have a key-function. The existing cmp_lt function was a hack that needs to go away and never return. It was put in to accommodate some bad code in Twisted that against recommendations relied on a specific rich comparison operator other that __lt__. Because of that, PEP 8 amended to say that we recommend that all six rich comparison operators be implemented for comparison (and the functools.total_ordering class decorator was added in furtherance of that end). ---------- assignee: -> rhettinger nosy: +rhettinger priority: normal -> low type: -> enhancement versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 2.7, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20905> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
