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Subject: Re: sort order for strings of digits
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:05:17 -0400
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:24:21 -0600, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> Use functools.cmp_to_key for porting cmp functions.  "sort(x, my_cmp)"
> becomes "sort(x, key=cmp_to_key(my_cmp))"
> 
> The cmp builtin is also gone.  If you need it, the suggested replacement
> for "cmp(a, b)" is "(b < a) - (a < b)".
>
	OUCH... Just another reason for my to hang onto the 2.x series as
long as possible (I only installed 2.7 this summer, I'd been using
2.5... And a project at my former employment was still running 2.3 and
having conflicts with a program with a binary extension written for 2.2
-- and we couldn't find the source for the extension to rebuild it!)
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