[Baypiggies] Discussion for newbies/beginner night talks

[Chad Netzer]

On 2/9/07, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 5) Understand and use the decorate/sort/undecorate (DSU) idiom.
> I wouldn't agree that this is a beginner topic, especially since it's
> relatively new to the language.

Well, the idiom isn't all that new, although as Alex M. pointed out,
the 'key' argument
to list.sort() is.

For those not familiar with it:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting

Also, see the sorted() builtin with recent Python versions.

Chad