On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:46 AM, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Ha! That *lengthy* thread started fairly soon after I joined this >>> list. It was highly... informative. I learned a bit about Python, and >>> a lot about python-list, from the posts there. >> >> So what are we talking about here? Reduce? > > There was a huge thread about the removal of the cmp parameter to > sort() in Python 3.x. It was quite a wide-ranging discussion, touched > on many things. I think it got up to 90 posts in the first day, or > something. The main thing it taught me was that python-list is a high > traffic list; the next most important thing was who the courteous > posters are.
I know that, but I mean what were you talking about before if you weren't talking about cmp? > In contrast, the thread on NaNs in Python has taught me more about the > difference between floating point and 'real numbers' in a week or two > than all my previous computing training put together. Yep, this is an > interesting list. I liked that thread. There should be more of those. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list