> Tim Peters wrote: > > > Note that we switched from doing two minor releases per year, to > > something like one minor release per two years (2.2 was released > > in 2001!). timsort is less than a year old, IIRC. Since it can > > raise MemoryError where the 2.2 sort could not, and may compute > > different results on the same inputs, it was much more a new > > feature than a bugfix. > > Remind me why raising MemoryError is better than punting > and sorting the list some other way? > > Gareth McCaughan Because the old way requires just as much code as the new way, and we don't want both versions of the code around? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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