[Zope-dev] ZTK 2.0: Deprecate zope.sequencesort

[Tres Seaver]

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On 02/28/2013 08:43 AM, Stephan Richter wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I would like to deprecate zope.sequencesort in ZTK 2.0, since it
> cannot properly ported to Python 3, since it depends heavily on the
> cmp() way of sorting. I am also not a user of the package and I only
> tried to port the package for completeness sake.
> 
> Thoughts?

I'm generally in favor of shrinking the ZTK, but just for discussion's
sake:  emulating 'cmp' for objects which have rich comparison semantics
isn't that difficult::

  def _faux_cmp(lhs, rhs):
      return int(rhs < lhs) - int(lhs < rhs)


Tres.
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