Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I support removal; however, there is an uncommon corner-case that is well served by __cmp__ where a primary key is sorted ascending and a secondary key is sorted descending -- that case is a PITA with the key= function because you need a way to invert the sense of the reversed input (there are tricks for this but they are obscure).
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