Missing the functional mind set

[Steve Purcell]

Kirby Urner wrote:
> >The problem is that sorting a list can't be done in a functional way.
> 
> Maybe you didn't see the first responder's solution:
> 
>   >>> d = {3: 'd', 2: 'b', 1: 'a', 0: 'z'}
>   >>> templist = [d[n] for n in range(len(d))]
>   >>> templist
>   ['z', 'a', 'b', 'd']
> 
> That's a good 2.0 and up solution.

Except that he wanted the keys sorted, and didn't claim that they would
always be consecutive integers in range(len(d)).

(in which case I'd go for 'map(d.get, range(len(d)))' anyway)

-Steve

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