Chris Withers wrote:
> Who thinks the default python sort should stay like it is? Who thinks it
> should change?
> (reasons of course would be helpful, particularly if you want it to stay
> like it is ;-)
Python's sort() lets you sort based on not only strings but also tuples,
lists, and numbers, which is a very useful feature. Thus sort() is
intended to be a highly generalized method. It is useful but not ideal
for sorting text strings. What you *really* want is a second method,
perhaps in a new module (called "textops" or something similar) that
would also include multilingual text splitters and other utilities for
working with human-readable text.
BTW have you ever tried this?
data = [[], (), 0, '', {}]
data.sort()
print data
The one thing I wonder is whether the sort order is consistent between
different versions of Python. I get:
[0, {}, [], '', ()]
Shane
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