diff --git a/Lib/heapq.py b/Lib/heapq.py
index 192e982..ff4fc03 100644
--- a/Lib/heapq.py
+++ b/Lib/heapq.py
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
 #
 # Cutting the # of comparisons is important, since these routines have no
 # way to extract "the priority" from an array element, so that intelligence
-# is likely to be hiding in custom __cmp__ methods, or in array elements
+# is likely to be hiding in custom comparison methods, or in array elements
 # storing (priority, record) tuples.  Comparisons are thus potentially
 # expensive.
 #