[Tutor] Iterating over sorted dictionary keys in one line

[John Fouhy]

On 19/09/05, Marcin Komorowski <marcink at ieee.org> wrote:
> Is there a way to do this in a single line.  Something like this would be
> ideal: 
>     for key in dictionary.keys().soft(): 

Hi Marcin,

Others have already answered you, but just to follow up:

There is a reason why lst.sort() returns None: When you call .sort()
on a list, you are changing the original list.  If you happened to
have a reference to that list somewhere else in your program, sorting
it could cause unexpected behaviour.  So, python deliberately prevents
you from being able to type "for item in lst.sort()" as a reminder
that there are side-effects that you need to be wary of.

On the other hand, the new sorted() function creates a sorted copy, so
it doesn't matter (but you should be aware of the extra memory
requirements if you have big lists).

-- 
John.