> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the reason for this absence is that people could > think that doing repeated bisects using keys would be fast, even though keys > has to be recomputed? I think the main point Raymond had was: If we added key= to bisect, it would encourage bad design and steer people after from better solutions.
But you need to ask him :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list