[Python-ideas] Multiple level sorting in python where the order of some levels may or may not be reversed

[Sven R. Kunze]

On 17.10.2016 22:31, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 17 October 2016 at 21:06, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:
>> Do you think that simple solution could have a chance to be added to stdlib
>> somehow (with the possibility of speeding it up in the future)?
> You could submit a doc patch to add an explanation of this technique
> to the list.sort function.

Is the github repo ready? If so, I will do.

> I doubt it's worth a builtin for a 2-line function.

Not this 2-line function alone indeed. As my note about speeding it up 
in the future goes, I thought about an interface which allows people to 
do easy multisort BUT with the possibility of further optimization by 
the CPython or other Python implementations.


Cheers,
Sven