[Python-Dev] decorate-sort-undecorate

[Barry Warsaw]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 13:52, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > While we're hacking on [].sort(), how horrible would it be if we
> > modified it to return self instead of None?
> 
> -1000.  This is non-negotiable.

Sniff.

>>> class mylist(list):
...  def sort(self, *args, **kws):
...   super(mylist, self).sort(*args, **kws)
...   return self
... 
>>> mylist([5, 4, 3, 2, 1])
[5, 4, 3, 2, 1]
>>> x = mylist([5, 4, 3, 2, 1])
>>> x.sort()
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Bliss.
-Barry

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