Help understanding the decisions *behind* python?

Duncan Booth duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Tue Jul 21 06:28:16 EDT 2009


Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic at xemacs.org> wrote:

> Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> writes:
> 
>>>>>>>> x = [2,1,3]
>>>>>>>> print sorted(x)[0]
>>>>DB> 3
>>>
>>> What kind of Python produces that?
>>
>> Assuming you're referring to the latter example, it was added in
>> version 2.4 If you meant the former example, I think that's purely
>> pseudo-Python. 
> 
> sorted([2, 1, 3])[0] evaluates to 1, not 3.
> 

I guess you can tell I broke my unbreakable rule to never post untested 
code without labelling it as such. :-)

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