Re: Q: sort's key and cmp parameters

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 02:40:46 pm Paul Rubin wrote:
The problem is that if you allow to use the cmp, lot of programmers
will use it straight away, not even bothering to know what that
strange 'key' argument may be useful for. And they miss the how much
handy 'key' is.

Given how often we hear "consenting adults" as justification for any
number of gaps in Python error checking, the argument above is
singularly unpersuasive.

Well, as long as you consider them "gaps" in need of a "justification", of
course that argument (and the one about the "gaps" themselves) will of course
seem singularly unpersuasive.

But if you see them as a "feature" (that may sometimes, albeit rarely,
missfire), then you would have no problem with /either/ argument.

--
Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie)
Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH.
http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie
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