How to use cmp() in Python 3?

As mentioned in the comments, cmp doesn't exist in Python 3. If you really want it, you could define it yourself:

def cmp(a, b):
    return (a > b) - (a < b) 

which is taken from the original What's New In Python 3.0. It's pretty rare -- though not unheard of -- that it's really needed, though, so you might want to think about whether it's actually the best way to do whatever it is you're up to.

In Python 3.x you can import operator and use operator module's eq(), lt(), etc... instead of cmp()