Re: Pre-pep discussion material: in-place equivalents to map and filter

2016-11-04 Thread arthurhavlicek
> I don't think that justifies the claim of "especially > bad", which to me implies something much worse. Quicksort has built its popularity by performing better by "a mere factor two" better than mergesort and heapsort. It became the reference sorting algorithm even though its worst case comple

Pre-pep discussion material: in-place equivalents to map and filter

2016-11-03 Thread arthurhavlicek
Hi everybody, I have an enhancement proposal for Python and, as suggested by PEP 1, am exposing a stub to the mailing list before possibly starting writing a PEP. This is my first message to python mailing list. I hope you will find this content of interest. Python features a powerful and fast