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Author	rhettinger
Recipients	gvanrossum, rhettinger
Date	2008-01-09.00:37:52
SpamBayes Score	0.23705263
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Message-id	<1199839073.97.0.909623538588.issue1771@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I support removal; however, there is an uncommon corner-case that is well served by __cmp__ where a primary key is sorted ascending and a secondary key is sorted descending -- that case is a PITA with the key= function because you need a way to invert the sense of the reversed input (there are tricks for this but they are obscure).

I support removal;  however, there is an uncommon corner-case that is
well served by __cmp__ where a primary key is sorted ascending and a
secondary key is sorted descending -- that case is a PITA with the key=
function because you need a way to invert the sense of the reversed
input (there are tricks for this but they are obscure).

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-09 00:37:54	rhettinger	set	spambayes_score: 0.237053 -> 0.23705263 recipients: + rhettinger, gvanrossum
2008-01-09 00:37:53	rhettinger	set	spambayes_score: 0.237053 -> 0.237053 messageid: <1199839073.97.0.909623538588.issue1771@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-01-09 00:37:52	rhettinger	link	issue1771 messages
2008-01-09 00:37:52	rhettinger	create