[Python-ideas] suggestion about the sort() function of the list instance

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 04:31:25 EST 2017


On 1 March 2017 at 01:31, qhlonline <qhlonline at 163.com> wrote:
> My code example is not proper,  Yes,  may be this is better:
> list.sort().revers(

We can already do this - reversed(sorted(lst))

This is a long-established design decision in Python. It would need a
*very* compelling use case to even think about changing it.
Paul


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