Message 78183 - Python tracker

Thanks for the responses!

> I don't think should go into 3.0.1 - they are a new feature
> and not a bug fix.

But if these changes don't go into 3.0.1, and the removal of cmp does, 
that means that pybench won't run on 3.0.1.  It seems to me that we could 
make a strong case for this being a bugfix...