[Python-3000] Please re-add __cmp__ to python 3000

[Aahz]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007, Steven Bethard wrote:
>
> I'm having troubles coming up with things where the *basic* operator
> is really a cmp-like function.  Even in your example, the cmp function
> was defined in terms of "less than". If the basic operator is really
> "less than", then why define a cmp() function at all? 

>From my perspective, the real use case for cmp() is when you want to do
a three-way comparison of a "large" object (for example, a Decimal
instance).  You can store the result of cmp() and then do a separate
three-way branch.
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