On Mar 11, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Steven Bethard wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:48:45 +0100, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Which reminds me -- could we have a methodcaller relative to attrgetter
and itemgetter? "Sort a list of strings in a case-insensitive way"
would become *SO* easy with sort(dalist, key=methodcaller('lower'))...
can't REALLY recommend sort(dalist, key=str.lower) then the items of
dalist MIGHT be either str or unicode
I'd like to second this suggestion -- I've run into this problem a few times. When you're using a listcomp or genexp, you can inline it of course, but especially with a lot of functions growing the incredibly convenient key= arguments in 2.5 (e.g. min, max and the deque functions if I recall correctly), methodcaller would be a much more duck-typing friendly way to create such callables.
Yeah, if *only* we had some way to create callables in a nice, short, generic, and easy to understand way.
How about this proposal: >> sort(dalist, key=lambda x: x.lower())
Who wants to make a PEP for it? Maybe we can add it in Python 3000.
James
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