On 2/8/2012 5:18 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: > This was proposed several times on the issue tracker (search for "bisect > key"), > and these proposals have always been rejected: > http://bugs.python.org/issue4356 > http://bugs.python.org/issue1451588 > http://bugs.python.org/issue3374 Do these all suggest a specific api and if so, do they agree? > The last one summarizes the reasons of the rejection. > The documentation (http://docs.python.org/library/bisect.html, "see also") > contains a link to a "SortedCollection" recipe. >> I haven't looked at the SortedCollection class in detail, but you could > try to have it included in the stdlib... > -- Terry Jan Reedy