[Python-ideas] Proposal to add a key field to the bisect library

Anders Hovmöller boxed at killingar.net
Sun Nov 4 08:53:46 EST 2018


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 at 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.
> 
> 
> 
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> Steve
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