[Python-Dev] decorate-sort-undecorate
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Oct 13 21:00:58 EDT 2003
Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com>:
> [s for s in lst sortby s.lower()]
>
> It reads nicely, and avoids lambdas and tiny helper functions. Also
> handles the sort-returns-None criticism. But it adds syntax.
And makes the definition of list semantics in terms of
an equivalent for-loop nest much less elegant.
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