2010/10/10 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > Personnally, I'm not convinced that a maximum 25% improvement on a > rather uncommon use case (min() and max() on a sequence of objects > which take a long time to compare) is a compelling argument for a > builtin. On the other hand, it would be a rather simple and intuitive > builtin, so why not?
Because new builtins should have a better reason that there's no good reason not to. :) -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com