[Python-Dev] decorate-sort-undecorate

[Greg Ewing]

Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com>:

> Okay, really I'm just hoping for [x for x in l sortby key(x)], if
> not now then someday -- if only there was a decent way of expressing
> that without a keyword... [...in l : key(x)] is the only thing I can
> think of that would be syntactically possible (without introducing a
> new keyword, new punctuation, or reusing a wholely inappropriate
> existing keyword).

   [x >> key(x) for x in l] # ascending sort
   [x << key(x) for x in l] # descending sort

(Well, we got print >> f, so it was worth a try...)

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