On Feb 12, 2008 8:39 PM, Kurt B. Kaiser <<a href="mailto:kbk@shore.net">kbk@shore.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'd say in PEP3100. Here's a patch:<br><br><a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue2092" target="_blank">http://bugs.python.org/issue2092</a><br></blockquote></div><br>The suggested patch does not actually point to any discussion or rationale for why this change was made; it just contains a pointer to this thread (which is not very useful). So, while I hate to open a can of worms: but what's the rationale here?<br>
<br>Without the cmp argument, what's the concise way to spell something like "sort a list of floats by absolute value"? It'd be nice to have a stock example to help users rewrite their code to work with 3.0.<br clear="all">
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