[Python-ideas] Optional key to `bisect`'s functions?

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> Using insort on a list of a millions items is definitely not a good idea,
> but I can see how someone not so aware of scaling issues might be tempted,
> especially with no stdlib alternative. One could almost be tempted to issue
> a warning if 'hi' is 'too large'.
>

Put it in the docs.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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