[Python-Dev] decorate-sort-undecorate

[Ian Bicking]

On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 02:34 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> For Py2.4, I propose adding an optional list.sort() argument to 
> support the decorate-sort-undecorate pattern.

I've seen proposals for an extension to list comprehension, which would 
be quite nice:

   [s for s in lst sortby s.lower()]

It reads nicely, and avoids lambdas and tiny helper functions.  Also 
handles the sort-returns-None criticism.  But it adds syntax.  And 
since it's not an in-place sort it won't perform as well (but probably 
better than the decorator idiom anyway...?)

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