Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes: > It's kind of ridiculous to claim that cmp adds much complexity (it's > maybe ten lines of extra C code), so the only reason not to include it > is that it's much slower than using key.
Well, I thought it was also to get rid of 3-way cmp in general, in favor of rich comparison. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list