[TIP] Mocking properties on an instance

[Michael Foord]

On 12/09/2011 11:01, Herman Sheremetyev wrote:
> 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?
The sorting is on insertion order (so ordering rather than sorting 
really), which basically is free as you know the insertion order.

Michael

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