On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 7:50 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would be rather curious to know how frequently a list consists of > "numbers", but a mix of ints and floats. Does it happen a > lot in real-world code? > > This is of course undecidable to verify statically, so we can't just crawl PyPI... however, I would argue that using mixed float-int lists is dangerous, and is more dangerous in Python 3 than in Python 2. So hopefully this is not very common. However, even if 10% (surely a vast overestimate) of sort calls are to mixed int-float lists, my patch would still yield a significant savings on average. (Apologies if this has already been mentioned; I've been skimming the > thread, not reading it in detail.) It hasn't been mentioned in this thread :)
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