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Subject: Re: how to convert code that uses cmp to python3
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Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> writes:

> Op 07-04-16 om 23:08 schreef Ben Finney:
> > You are essentially describing the new internal API of comparison
> > operators. That's pretty much unavoidable.
>
> And nobody thought about this kind of cases

I'm quite confident the API changes were thought about by many people.

> or found them important enough?

Important enough for what? You still haven't demonstrated what actual
harm is done by these API changes.

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