Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Abdulaziz Ghuloum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Python FAQs contain an entry to the schwartzian transform. >> >> http://www.python.org/doc/faq/programming.html#i-want-to-do-a-complicated-sort-can-you-do-a-schwartzian-transform-in-python > >This entry is obsolete: it should mention the 'key' option of the >standard sort method.
It should mention it, but not necessarily recommend it. I haven't run the numbers in Python, but in Perl, the undecorated sort is so well-optimized that the Schwartzian transform is almost always faster than passing a custom comparator to the sort function. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
