http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/2_to_3/top/2010-04-04T23:28:40-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2010-04-04T23:28:40-07:00Raymond Hettingerhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/178123/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576653-convert-a-cmp-function-to-a-key-function/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576653 by <a href="/recipes/users/178123/">Raymond Hettinger</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/2_to_3/">2_to_3</a>). Revision 5. </p> <p>Py3.0 transition aid. The <em>sorted()</em> builtin and the <em>list.sort()</em> method no longer accept a <em>cmp</em> function in Python 3.0. Most cases are easy to convert manually. This recipe handles the remaining cases.</p>