Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > I don't think it makes sense to add key arguments to mode, mean, > variance etc. I'm having trouble thinking of what that would > even mean
I concur. This proposal bends the concept of a key-function to where it is no longer obvious what it does. > I've given this some more thought, and I think that a "key" > argument would make sense for a general selection function. Yes, that would make sense: select(A, k, key=somefunc) == sorted(A, key=somefunc)[k] ---------- nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30999> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com