csail/6006psets_ng — comment on commit 25b6cb1c513906c0ba97768d5ad90d2152adfec4
File: 5/code/rsa/big_num.rb line 86
By pwnall:

The Python code is the way it is because Python 3 removed support for `__cmp__`, which is the python equivalent of the spaceship operator. I wanted to have the 6.006 code forward-compatible with Python 3, just in case it ever gets accepted by the community.