Scott David Daniels <scott.dani...@acm.org> writes: > Most cases are moreeasily done with key, and it is > a good idea to make the most accessible way to a sort be the most > efficient one. In the rare case that you really want each comparison, > the cmp-injection function will do nicely (and can be written as a > recipe.
I don't think wrapping the sorted objects in an otherwise useless special purpose class is "nicely", either from a performance or from a code verbosity point of view. I avoid Java and its useless extra classes for a reason ;-). > In short, make the easy path the fast path, and more will use it; > provide two ways, and the first that springs to mind is the one > used. I think we are saying the same thing. Python 2.x provides two ways and you can use whichever one fits the application better. I have never understood why Python 3.x finds it necessary to break one of them. Maybe I can migrate to Haskell by the time Python 2.x becomes deprecated. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
