[Python-Dev] decorate-sort-undecorate

[Tim Peters]

[Phillip J. Eby]
> Why not just have the decoration be (key,index,value) then?  Why does
> the key function need the index?

It doesn't if indices are synthesized by magic under the covers.  Then it
starts acting more like Zope (we know it does *something*, but it's not
clear what <wink>).  If you want to pay that expense now, you do so
explicitly, and nothing about it is hidden.