copysort patch, was RE: [Python-Dev] inline sort option
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Oct 21 19:42:41 EDT 2003
Mark Russell <marktrussell at btopenworld.com>:
> The argument for it is that walking over a dictionary in sorted order
> is (at least to me) a missing idiom in python. Does this never come
> up when you're teaching the language?
Maybe dicts should have a .sortedkeys() method? The specialised
method name would help stave off any temptation to add varied sort
methods to other types.
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