[Python-ideas] Allow filter(items)

[Shane Green]

Okay, but those are kind of implementation detail reasons, not language consistency, right?


On Aug 6, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Joshua Landau <joshua at landau.ws> wrote:

> On 7 August 2013 03:46, Shane Green <shane at umbrellacode.com> wrote:
>> It seems kind of like there should be a filtered operation like there is a
>> sorted one.
> 
> filtered would be identical to filter as-is. sorted is a counterpart
> to a method, not another function.
> 
>> (and why not have a list.filter(predicate=None) to perform in place
>> filtering for that matter?)
> 
> sorted actually just converts to a list and then runs the sort method
> AFAICT. sort is defined in-place because it's efficient that way. None
> of this applies to filter.
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