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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:41:37 +1000
Subject: Re: Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:10 AM, rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> wrote:
> olks who have vast libraries of Python
> code that have been rendered useless because a few elites have spent
> too much time lamenting minutia.

How is the code "rendered useless" when (a) Python 2.7 is still the
default Python in many places, and (b) in any place where it's not,
it's going to be about one command to install a python2?

ChrisA