Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method

[Antoon Pardon]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:59:55PM +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The removal of cmp from the sort method of lists is probably the most 
> disliked change in Python 3. On the python-dev mailing list at the 
> moment, Guido is considering whether or not it was a mistake.
> 
> If anyone has any use-cases for sorting with a comparison function that 
> either can't be written using a key function, or that perform really 
> badly when done so, this would be a good time to speak up.

How about a list of tuples where you want them sorted first item in ascending
order en second item in descending order.

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Antoon Pardon