[Python-ideas] Exploiting type-homogeneity in list.sort() (again!)

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/6/2017 1:56 AM, Elliot Gorokhovsky wrote:

> P.S. Is it OK if I close my current issue on the bug tracker and open a
> new issue, where I'll post the revised patch? The writing on my current
> issue uses the old, less-rigorous benchmarks, and I feel it would be
> less confusing if I just made a new issue and posted the correct
> benchmarks/discussion at the top. The current issue doesn't have many
> comments, so not much would be lost by just linking to it from the new
> issue. If this violates bug tracker etiquette, however, :) I'll just
> post the revised patch on my current issue.

That would be normal.  Issues often get revised patches, sometimes with 
more severe changes than this.  Or people post competing patches.  Do 
reverence this thread, and quote Tim's approval in principle, if he did 
not post on the tracker.

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Terry Jan Reedy