[Python-Dev] Python3 regret about deleting list.sort(cmp=...) (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Mar 12 23:53:20 CET 2011


But in Python 3 this solution is no longer available. How bad is that? I'm not sure. But I'd like to at least get the issue out in the open.

Rather than reintroducing cmp=, I'd add a cached=True parameter. If this is set to False, the key results wouldn't be put into a list, but recreated every time two objects need to be compared.

Regards, Martin



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