[Python-ideas] Automatic total ordering

[Terry Reedy]

George Sakkis wrote:
> Now that 3.x fixes the arbitrary object comparison wart and drops (?) 
> __cmp__, 

An entry for __cmp__ was in the 3.0c1 doc, which confused me.
It is now gone in
http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/reference/datamodel.html#special-method-names

Since rich comparisons are defined on object and are inherited by all 
classes, it would be difficult to make them not defined.