A small suggestion for Python

[Matt Dunford]

"Edward C. Jones" <edcjones at erols.com> writes:

>I have been programming in Python for several years. I still
>occasionally make mistakes with functions (such as sort) that
>return only "None". I suggest that functions like sort should
>return either "Nothing" or nothing. "Nothing" would be exactly
>like "None" except it can't be assigned. Whether "Nothing" or
>nothing is used, the statement "x= y.sort()" would raise a
>run-time Exception.

>Thanks,
>Ed Jones


I'm not too fond of this idea.  If you misuse a method, whose fault is
it?  Python's or your own?  I think we should keep sort the way it is.

Although, I wouldn't mind having a builtin method that returns a sorted
array.  Then we could do something like this:

dict = { 'this' : 1, 'that' : 2 }
for key in dict.keys().sort():
	print key


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