Selon Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Robert Bossy] > > I thought it would be useful if insort and consorts* could accept the > > same options than list.sort, especially key and cmp. > > If you're going to do many insertions or searches, wouldn't it be > *much* more efficient to store your keys in a separate array? > > The sort() function guarantees that it calls the key function exactly > once for each member of the list. With and bisect/insort, successive > searches can call the key function over and over again with the same > value.
Yeah, sure. Thanks for pointing that out. RB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list