[Python-3000] Total ordering and __cmp__

[Terry Reedy]

 Terry Reedy schrieb:
| > In any case, this point is that dict ordering is as arbitrary as 
ordering,
| > for instance, a dict and a string.  Since Guido stopped the experiment 
of
| > totally ordering all objects when complex nums were added, consistency
| > suggests that all fake orderings be eliminated, leaving only the order 
of
| > numbers, characters, and sequences of comparable objects.

I should have added that not having an arbitrary total order allows for 
useful partial orders.  The comparisons on sets appear to be such now 
(based on inclusion) and RH mentioned doing the same for dicts in 3.0.

tjr