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

[Lennart Regebro]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
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> On Feb 28, 2013, at 14:43 , Stephan Richter <stephan.richter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> What does it do? I could not find a single line of documentation for it, which makes it likely very few people, if any, are using it.

Reading through the code, it seems to use a lot of code to provide
quite basic sorting functionality.
It feels like it's trying to fill the same role as sorted() does since
Python 2.4.

//Lennart