[issue37229] bisect: Allow a custom compare function

Raymond Hettinger report at bugs.python.org
Tue Jun 11 11:35:03 EDT 2019


Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

Sorry, but we've intentionally removed generic compare functions in favor of objects supporting __lt__.  That is now the one-way-to-do-it.  If needed for convenience, you can use functools.cmp_to_key to automatically build a wrapper.

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resolution:  -> rejected
stage: patch review -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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