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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu Mar 2 04:08:51 EST 2017


On 1 March 2017 at 19:38, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01.03.17 11:31, Paul Moore wrote:
>>
>> 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))
>
>
> Or just sorted(lst, reverse=True).

Indeed. Which illustrates nicely why learning Python's approach to
doing things rather than translating idioms from other languages will
get cleaner code.
Paul


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