On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 12:19:49AM +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 02:20:31PM +0200, Tiberiu Chibici wrote:

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Hi, I would like to propose an improvement to the functions in the bisect library, to add a 'key' parameter, similar to 'sorted' or other system functions.

Quoting the bug tracker: [...] https://bugs.python.org/issue4356

Actually, reading further along, it looks like there has been concensus that bisect ought to get a key function. Guido said: "Bingo. That clinches it. We need to add key=." also: "PS. It should also be added to heapq." and Raymond said: "I'll add a key= variant for Python 3.6." Obviously this didn't happen, but it might happen for 3.8. -- Steve

That link has Guido and Raymond Hettinger ending +1 and looking to either add it or writing a simple copy paste:able recipe to the docs. I mean, that's how I read it, did you read that and come to a different impression?

On 4 Nov 2018, at 14:19, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:

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On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 02:20:31PM +0200, Tiberiu Chibici wrote: Hi, I would like to propose an improvement to the functions in the bisect library, to add a 'key' parameter, similar to 'sorted' or other system functions.

Quoting the bug tracker:

This request has come up repeatedly (and been rejected) in the past. See issues 2954, 3374, 1185383, 1462228, 1451588, 1619060.

https://bugs.python.org/issue4356

Unless you have something new to add, something people have missed, I don't think this idea is going to go anywhere.

-- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/

On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 12:19:49AM +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 02:20:31PM +0200, Tiberiu Chibici wrote:

...

Hi, I would like to propose an improvement to the functions in the bisect library, to add a 'key' parameter, similar to 'sorted' or other system functions.

Quoting the bug tracker: [...] https://bugs.python.org/issue4356

Actually, reading further along, it looks like there has been concensus that bisect ought to get a key function. Guido said: "Bingo. That clinches it. We need to add key=." also: "PS. It should also be added to heapq." and Raymond said: "I'll add a key= variant for Python 3.6." Obviously this didn't happen, but it might happen for 3.8. -- Steve

That link has Guido and Raymond Hettinger ending +1 and looking to either add it or writing a simple copy paste:able recipe to the docs. I mean, that's how I read it, did you read that and come to a different impression?

On 4 Nov 2018, at 14:19, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:

...

On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 02:20:31PM +0200, Tiberiu Chibici wrote: Hi, I would like to propose an improvement to the functions in the bisect library, to add a 'key' parameter, similar to 'sorted' or other system functions.

Quoting the bug tracker:

This request has come up repeatedly (and been rejected) in the past. See issues 2954, 3374, 1185383, 1462228, 1451588, 1619060.

https://bugs.python.org/issue4356

Unless you have something new to add, something people have missed, I don't think this idea is going to go anywhere.

-- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/