[Python-3000] Is __cmp__ deprecated?

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> cmp() is still alive and __cmp__ is used to overload it; on the one
> hand I'd like to get rid of it but OTOH it's occasionally useful.

Maybe you could keep cmp() but implement it in terms
of, say, __lt__ and __eq__?

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