On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On the contrary. If you are using cmp with sort, your sorts are slow, and > you should upgrade to using a key function as soon as possible. >
But cmp_to_key doesn't actually improve anything. So I'm not sure how Py3 has achieved anything; Py2 supported key-based sorting already. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list