Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method

[Martin v. Loewis]

> The cmp argument doesn't depend in any way on an object's __cmp__
> method, so getting rid of __cmp__ wasn't any good readon to also get
> rid of the cmp argument

So what do you think about the cmp() builtin? Should have stayed,
or was it ok to remove it?

If it should have stayed: how should it's implementation have looked like?

If it was ok to remove it: how are people supposed to fill out the cmp=
argument in cases where they use the cmp() builtin in 2.x?

Regards,
Martin