-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/11 13:14, Paul Moore wrote: > None of my real code is affected either way, but it seems to me that > the removal of the comparison function option was (sadly) a case of > purity being allowed to beat practicality. Luckily, adding it back > wouldn't be a backward compatibility issue :-) Whether it's worth > doing, I'll leave to those who would be doing the work to judge...
I would +1 to reintroducing "cmp". Mapping my mental "cmp" to a "key" is something I must think about everyday. When I have a 200 element list, I don't mind about the "O(nlog(n))" nature of "cmp", instead of "O(n)" of key. - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ j...@jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:j...@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ . _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQCVAwUBTYDhJJlgi5GaxT1NAQKcXQP+IX5bSb3aSNsfzu/vjNY41CNI/1CJ+r3q vxPbi7ut1ZvXVyiMo2b+jVC1rxNVitf0pQXyQ4skv9Tiq3+L8eYbOts7hbmDB7Aw sNPWYuvjLmTrX2lsgdQyjbiVK0lHJjzYn8+pvKqy7Tt47+sNiL/07FmM6CHj2fiU N/vspNCa6rs= =Zc90 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
