case-insensitive and internationalized sort

[Chad Netzer]

On Thursday 19 December 2002 13:01, Kevin Altis wrote:

> Anyone up for a casesensitive flag addition to the sort() method?

You've already demonstrated that you can achieve what you want by 
passing in a compare function.  Why do you need a flag or to do it 
also?  The flag isn't nearly as flexible or powerful as the 
existing method, and would be confusing when you are NOT sorting 
homogeneous, lexicographic objects.  A better proposal would be to 
put up a Python Cookbook entry demonstrating the various methods 
for doing a case-insensitive sort (or a FAQ entry if it is a really 
common problem; but I doubt it is).

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