Antoon Pardon, 23.03.2011 14:53:
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:59:55PM +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The removal of cmp from the sort method of lists is probably the most
disliked change in Python 3. On the python-dev mailing list at the
moment, Guido is considering whether or not it was a mistake.
If anyone has any use-cases for sorting with a comparison function that
either can't be written using a key function, or that perform really
badly when done so, this would be a good time to speak up.
How about a list of tuples where you want them sorted first item in ascending
order en second item in descending order.
You can use a stable sort in two steps for that.
Stefan
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