[Python-3000] Please re-add cmp to python 3000 (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Oct 17 21:25:32 CEST 2007

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007, Steven Bethard wrote:

I'm having troubles coming up with things where the basic operator is really a cmp-like function. Even in your example, the cmp function was defined in terms of "less than". If the basic operator is really "less than", then why define a cmp() function at all?

From my perspective, the real use case for cmp() is when you want to do a three-way comparison of a "large" object (for example, a Decimal instance). You can store the result of cmp() and then do a separate three-way branch.

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