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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:36:18 -0600
Subject: Re: Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:06 PM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> I think I've found a solution:
>
> =A0 =A0class NegStr:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0def __init__(self, value):
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0self._value =3D value
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0def __lt__(self, other):
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0return self._value > other._value

IOW:

cmp_to_key(lambda x, y: -cmp(x, y))

This is still just taking a cmp function and dressing it up as a key.