Hi all - it would seem that these days, all the cool kids use the sort function's 'key' kwarg in order to sort a list of custom objects quickly.
Unfortunately, as opposed to using 'cmp', where you can implent __cmp__ to get 'automatic sorting' in a similar fashion, there doesn't seem to be a direct analogue for a class-overridable method for providing a sort key. (ie, something like '__sortkey__' or '__key__'). Is there one, and I'm just missing it? If not, are there any plans to add one? (I did a quick search of the PEP list, and the only hits for 'sort' I saw had to do with sorting dictionaries by value). - Paul
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