On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Daniel Stutzbach
<daniel@stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote:
list.sort, sorted, and similar methods currently have a "key" argument that accepts a callable. Often, that leads to code looking like this:
mylist.sort(key=lambda x: x[1])
myotherlist.sort(key=lambda x: x.length)
I would like to propose that the "key" parameter be generalized to accept str and int types, so the above code could be rewritten as follows:
mylist.sort(key=1)
myotherlist.sort(key='length')
I find the latter to be much more readable. As a bonus, performance for those cases would also improve.
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