Brian Mills wrote: > >> but using a compare function instead of a key mapper is not good advice, >> in general. brief discussion here: >> http://effbot.org/pyfaq/i-want-to-do-a-complicated-sort-can-you-do-a-schwartzian-transform-in-python > > Is this mostly because of the stability problem described here: > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52234 ?
as mentioned in the comments to that recipe, Python's sort has been stable since 2.3. > Or is it more a performance issue due having to make so many function calls? exactly (see the last sentence in the FAQ entry). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
