On 04/09/11 01:08, Aahz wrote: > Actually, my take is that removing __cmp__ was a mistake. (I already > argued about it back in python-dev before it happened, and I see little > point rehashing it. My reason is strictly efficiency grounds: when > comparisons are expensive -- such as Decimal object -- __cmp__ is > faster.)
I don't get you... why would sorting a list using __cmp__ be faster when comparisons are expensive? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
