On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Reid Kleckner <reid.kleck...@gmail.com> wrote: > They should be able to use a slotted cmp_to_key style class: > http://docs.python.org/howto/sorting.html > > That will allocate 1 Python object with no dict per key, but that > might not be good enough.
Tuples are already slotted, so that isn't likely to help in this case. The basic point is that cmp vs key is actually a classic space vs speed trade-off, and by removing the "cmp" option, we prevent people from making that trade-off for themselves. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
