In another thread ("Brainstorming: Python Metaprogramming") it occurred
to me that many LINQish things are reasonable enough given the AST and
generator expressinos. But sorting is hard to do. Sorting also remains
a place where lambdas are still frequently needed, like:
sorted(list_of_people, key=lambda p: (p.lname, l.fname))
We got rid of the lambda-encouraging map and filter, maybe one more?
(p for p in list_of_people orderby (p.lname, p.fname))
I have no particular opinion on the keyword, though I assume a keyword
is required; it may be difficult to find a keyword that people are not
frequently using (but then this is py3k, so maybe not as big a deal).
By including this in the generator expression AST introspection makes it
possible to translate that to a SQL ORDER BY clause; I'm sure other
out-of-Python query processors (like one of the numeric packages) could
use this similarly.
But, putting the AST stuff aside, I also think it is just nice syntax
for a fairly common case, and a nice compliment for comprehensions.
--
Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org
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