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Re: sort order for strings of digits

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Date 2012-11-01 11:53 +1100
Subject Re: sort order for strings of digits
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.3134.1351731190.27098.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On the contrary. If you are using cmp with sort, your sorts are slow, and
> you should upgrade to using a key function as soon as possible.
>

But cmp_to_key doesn't actually improve anything. So I'm not sure how
Py3 has achieved anything; Py2 supported key-based sorting already.

ChrisA

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sort order for strings of digits djc <djc@kangoo.invalid> - 2012-10-31 15:17 +0000
  Re: sort order for strings of digits Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-10-31 16:31 +0100
  Re: sort order for strings of digits Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-10-31 09:44 -0600
  Re: sort order for strings of digits Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-10-31 14:17 -0400
  Re: sort order for strings of digits Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-31 21:33 +0000
  Re: sort order for strings of digits Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-10-31 19:05 -0400
    Re: sort order for strings of digits Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-31 23:44 +0000
      Re: sort order for strings of digits Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-01 11:53 +1100
        Re: sort order for strings of digits Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-02 00:27 +0000
  Re: sort order for strings of digits Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-31 23:09 +0000
    Re: sort order for strings of digits DJC <djc@news.invalid> - 2012-10-31 23:45 +0000
    Re: sort order for strings of digits Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2012-11-01 00:59 +0000
  Re: sort order for strings of digits Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-11-01 00:30 +0000
  Re: sort order for strings of digits wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-01 01:52 -0700

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