This lets us take a class defined for Python 2's ordering system (using
__cmp__) and use it with minimal changes — just a decorator — in Python 3.
This implementation is adapted from the Python 2 version of
functools.total_ordering, which derives these methods from each other
instead of from __cmp__.
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