[Python-Dev] Re: Python-Dev Digest, Vol 3, Issue 25

[Jeremy Fincher]

On Monday 13 October 2003 05:17 pm, Peter Norvig wrote:
> I like "sort" better than "decorator"; I would also like "by", as in
> sort(names, by=ages.__getitem__).

Coincidentally, my own decorate-sort-undecorate function is named "sortBy" :)  
So I'm +1 on naming the argument "by".

> I would also advocate an optional reverse=False argument, so that
>
> result = sort(names, reverse=True)
>
> is equivalent to
>
> result = sort(names)
> result.reverse()

I like it.

Jeremy