list.sort, was Re: [Python-Dev] decorate-sort-undecorate
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Fri Oct 17 12:13:37 EDT 2003
>> If anything at all, i'd suggest a std-module which contains e.g.
>> 'sort', 'reverse' and 'extend' functions which always return
>> a new list, so that you could write:
>>
>> for i in reverse(somelist):
>> ...
Gustavo> You can do reverse with [::-1] now.
I don't think that is considered "stable" in the sorting sense. If I sort
in descending order vs ascending order, they are not mere reversals of each
other. I may well still want adjacent records whose sort keys are
identical to remain in the same order.
What will the new reverse=True keyword arg do?
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