Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Mon Mar 9 16:53:33 CET 2015

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On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Ryan Smith-Roberts wrote:
> I suspect that you will find the Python community extremely conservative
> about any changes to its sorting algorithm, given that it took thirteen
> years and some really impressive automated verification software to find
> this bug:

On the other hand, the only person who really needs to be convinced is 
Tim Peters. It's really not up to the Python community.

The bug tracker is the right place for discussing this.

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Steve

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