Seebs wrote: > I tend to write stuff like > > foo.array_of_things.sort.map { block }.join(", ") > > I like this a lot more than > array = foo.array_of_things > sorted_array = array.sort() > mapped_array = [block(x) for x in sorted_array] > ", ".join(mapped_array)
If you insist on a one-liner for four separate operations, what's wrong with this? ", ".join([block(x) for x in sorted(foo.array_of_things)]) Or if you prefer map: ", ".join(map(block, sorted(foo.array_of_things)) I think I would be less skeptical about fluent interfaces if they were written more like Unix shell script pipelines instead of using attribute access notation: foo.array_of_things | sort | map block | join ", " -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list