A small suggestion for Python
Alex Martelli
aleaxit at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 13 18:42:53 EST 2001
"Matt Dunford" <kno at jtan.com> wrote in message
news:G74HuE.AGn.0.sinope at news.jtan.com...
[snip]
> Although, I wouldn't mind having a builtin method that returns a sorted
> array. Then we could do something like this:
>
> dict = { 'this' : 1, 'that' : 2 }
> for key in dict.keys().sort():
> print key
And instead we have to do
for key in return_sorted(dict.keys()):
print key
Is it that much of a problem...? return_sorted's pretty trivial too:
def return_sorted(alist):
alist.sort()
return alist
Alex
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