Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Am going to close for the reasons agreed by most of the respondants. See additional explanation in the closing of issue 1451588 .
That all-at-once action of sort() allows it to take advantage of a single key-function call per element; in contrast, successive calls to bisect functions are more finely grained and the key-function doesn't make sense anymore. ---------- resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed _____________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1619060> _____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
