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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject: Re: how to convert code that uses cmp to python3
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 09:53:16 +0300
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Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>:

> On 4/8/2016 12:22 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> The issue is known. It has been tackled with a kind of a "garbage
>> collection" scheme:
>>
>>     <URL: https://bugs.python.org/issue22448>
>
> and fixed 1 1/2 years ago.

On the surface, the garbage collection scheme looks dubious, but maybe
it works perfect in practice.


Marko