[TIP] Mocking properties on an instance

Herman Sheremetyev herman at swebpage.com
Mon Sep 12 03:01:08 PDT 2011


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> On 05/09/2011 09:11, Chris Wesseling wrote:
>>
>> On 2011-09-04T23:29:09+0100, Michael Foord wrote:
>>>>
>>>> (P.S. I really do wish python had a sortedset and frozendict type
>>>> already but that is a different discussion :/ )
>>>
>>> Indeed. :-)
>>>
>>> (There was a proposal to make sets sorted by default. I'm not sure
>>> what has happened to that though.)
>>
>> By default? Blegh. :-r
>>
> Why? What would the downside be?

Sorting isn't free and it's easily available if you actually need it.
What would the upside be from always paying an extra nlogn?



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