[Python-Dev] PEP 265 - Sorting Dictionaries by Value

[Barry Scott]

Of course you'd still have to update the docs to point the folks to
the useful comparison functions to use with sort.

		Barry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-dev-admin@python.org [mailto:python-dev-admin@python.org]On
> Behalf Of Guido van Rossum
> Sent: 22 August 2001 15:16
> To: Grant Griffin
> Cc: Peter Funk; python-dev@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 265 - Sorting Dictionaries by Value
> 
> 
> > However, the problem I see with a class-based approach is that this
> > is such a small thing that I'm not even sure how to write a class
> > for it that isn't more grandiose than it deserves.
> 
> Believe me, adding a new method to a heavily-used built-in object is
> much more grandiose than adding a library module.  In addition to "15
> lines of code" we need to update the documentation, add a few lines to
> the test suite, add code to Jython mimicking the feature; 30 books
> will be a little more out of date, and so on.
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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