Re: [Python-ideas] Multiple level sorting in python where the order of some levels may or may not be reversed

On 17/10/2016 21:31, Paul Moore wrote:

On 17 October 2016 at 21:06, Sven R. Kunze wrote:

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Do you think that simple solution could have a chance to be added to stdlib somehow (with the possibility of speeding it up in the future)?

You could submit a doc patch to add an explanation of this technique to the list.sort function. I doubt it's worth a builtin for a 2-line function.

Paul

How about changing https://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting ? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence