On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:27 -0400, Steve Holden wrote:
[...]
> I've got some timings lying around somewhere that clearly show the
> decorate/sort/undecorate implementation is way faster under normal
> circumstances.

True. That's a very important point. Even in the good old days before
sort() developed the key parameter, decorate-sort-undecorate was The Way
To Do It in so many cases. Python's sorting is *fast* for simple
objects.

That's a much better motivation than my technical argument of why it
will interfere with __eq__.

Regards,
Malcolm


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