Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method

[Westley Martínez]

On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 07:11 +0100, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano, 25.03.2011 06:46:
> > On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:32:11 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
> >
> >> It's probably the least justified builtin other than pow.
> >
> > I don't know about that. Correctly, efficiently and *quickly*
> > implementing the three-argument version of pow is exactly the sort of
> > thing that should be in the built-ins, or at least the standard library.
> 
> I think that touches it already. We have a "math" module, so why is there a 
> *builtin* for doing special math? How much code is there really that only 
> uses pow() and does not import "math"?
> 
> Stefan
> 

pow() and math.pow() are different.