copysort patch, was RE: [Python-Dev] inline sort option
Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)
tdelaney at avaya.com
Tue Oct 21 19:53:01 EDT 2003
> From: Greg Ewing [mailto:greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz]
>
> 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.
-1.
I think that:
d = {1: 2, 3: 4}
for i in list.sorted(d):
print i
or
d = {1: 2, 3: 4}
for i in list.sorted(d.iterkeys()):
print i
looks very clean and unambiguous. And is even better at staving off temptation to add varied sort methods to other types.
Tim Delaney
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