Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Sorry, am closing this RFE because its not the best way to use the bisect tools. The cmp function is going away in Py3.0 in favor of key functions. Yet, even those do not play nicely with bisect because the function results are not stored between successive calls to bisect. Accordingly, it is almost always better to arrange the records in a decorated style so that they can be compared directly and not through a cmp or key function.
The one misgiving is that is feels odd to be able to sort by a key function but not maintain that order or search that ordering using the bisect module. Yet, there is a simple reason for the difference -- sort () works on the entire sequence at once and can take advantage of the single key function call per element -- in contrast, the bisect functions have finer granularity and the cmp/key functions no longer make sense. ---------- nosy: +rhettinger resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed _____________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1451588> _____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
