Python's simplicity philosophy

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

In article <61Ztb.3481$sb4.1708 at newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
Andrew Dalke wrote:
[snip]
>  - sort is a method on lists.  It only works on lists.  Unlike STL,
>     which distinguishes between a container and an algorithm, there
>     is no way to apply sort directly to anything which isn't a list.  Your
>     case (using sort on "a disk file or something") cannot occur.

Surely he was talking about implementing "list-alikes"...? I.e.
sequences polymorphically equivalent to lists, or at least wrt.
sequence-ness and sorting...? The stability requirement does make this
sort of thing a tad more difficult. (Not that I find it very
problematic; I'm just trying to interpret the meaning of the post.)

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