[Python-Dev] Propose to reject PEP 265 -- Sorting Dictionaries by Value

[Steven Bethard]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> May I suggest rejecting PEP 265.
> 
> As of Py2.4, its use case is easily solved with:
> 
> >>> sorted(d.iteritems(), key=itemgetter(1), reverse=True)
> [('b', 23), ('d', 17), ('c', 5), ('a', 2), ('e', 1)]

+1.

I find that usually when I want something like this, I use:
   sorted(d, key=d.__getitem__, reverse=True)
because it doesn't require the operator module and most of the time I
just need the keys anyway.

py> sorted(d, key=d.__getitem__, reverse=True)
['b', 'd', 'c', 'a', 'e']

Steve
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