Paul Rubin wrote: >> Note that sorted is a builtin function, not a method of a list >> object. > > Oh, same difference. I thought it was a method because I'm not using > 2.4 yet. The result is the same
nope. sorted works on any kind of sequence, including forward-only iterators. sorted(open(filename)) works just fine, for example. > other than that having it as a function instead of a method is another > inconsistency to remember I suspect that you don't really understand how sequences and iterators work in Python... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
