Python and Schools

[Jason Smith]

Bryan L. Fordham wrote:

> It would make perfect sense for a teacher to require you to use
> something more than list.sort() if you're studying sorting... but after
> that, why make you write your own sorting routines if what's provided
> works just fine?

I agree.

Still, what's wrong with this?

  a.the_sort_that_i_learned_last_week()

Anyway, this decision is all up to the teacher of course.  So then we see
that Python gives a teacher flexibility depending on the focus of study. 
And that sounds like another big plus to me.


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