On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > Erm, using a compare function rather than a key function slows down > sorting /significantly/. In fact, the `cmp` parameter to list.sort() > has been *removed* in Python 3.0 because of this.
Makes a lot of sense, as you only have to run the slow python function N times, rather than doing it N log N times... So I guess I have also learned today that the internal cmp can handle lists and tuples properly, i.e (1,7) > (1,5), definitely a much neater way of doing things: the reasons are starting to pile to fare 2.6 goodbye and move on to 3.0... > > Also, top-posting is evil. Please avoid it in the future. Must be the mad scientist wanting to take over the world in me. ;-) Note taken... Jaime > > Cheers, > Chris > -- > http://blog.rebertia.com > -- (\__/) ( O.o) ( > <) Este es Conejo. Copia a Conejo en tu firma y ayúdale en sus planes de dominación mundial. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
