[issue5479] Add an easy way to provide total ordering now that __cmp__ is deprecated/gone

[David W. Lambert]

David W. Lambert <lambertdw at corning.com> added the comment:

(As I recall) in python-dev mailing list Ray claimed he could clean up a
cited active state recipe to address this issue.  He succeeded to the
extent I'm aware---he's the author of
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576685/.

I haven't used the redundant >, >= comparisons operators in code since
1981.  The chances of simplifying python by removing them from the
language are None, but the mistake predates python by 10**n years, where
(3 <= n <= 7) or (7 >= n >= 3).

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