On 9 Okt., 22:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, that's a wonderful thing, because from the code I see around
99.9% of people see the cmp and just use it, totally ignoring the
presence of the 'key' argument, that allows better and shorter
solutions of the sorting problem.
Me too because I
Thomas Heller wrote:
Does Python 3 have no way anymore to sort with a comparison function?
Both [].sort() and sorted() seem to accept only 'key' and 'reverse'
arguments,
the 'cmp' argument seems to be gone. Can that be?
Terry Reedy schrieb:
Yes. When this was discussed, no one could
On Oct 10, 8:35 am, Kay Schluehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9 Okt., 22:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, that's a wonderful thing, because from the code I see around
99.9% of people see the cmp and just use it, totally ignoring the
presence of the 'key' argument, that allows better and
On 10 Okt., 19:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 10, 8:35 am, Kay Schluehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9 Okt., 22:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, that's a wonderful thing, because from the code I see around
99.9% of people see the cmp and just use it, totally ignoring the
Kay Schluehr:
Sometimes it helps when people just make clear how they use technical
terms instead of invoking vague associations.
And generally Python docs can enjoy growing few thousands examples...
Bye,
bearophile
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On Oct 10, 12:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 10, 8:35 am, Kay Schluehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9 Okt., 22:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, that's a wonderful thing, because from the code I see around
99.9% of people see the cmp and just use it, totally ignoring the
On 10 Okt., 20:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kay Schluehr:
Sometimes it helps when people just make clear how they use technical
terms instead of invoking vague associations.
And generally Python docs can enjoy growing few thousands examples...
Cleaning up and extending documentation is a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Kay Schluehr:
Sometimes it helps when people just make clear how they use technical
terms instead of invoking vague associations.
And generally Python docs can enjoy growing few thousands examples...
Well, that may not be necessary. But I think that a clear
Kay Schluehr wrote:
Me too because I don't get this:
key specifies a function of one argument that is used to extract a
comparison key from each list element: key=str.lower. The default
value is None.
I am not sure what you do not get, but it should say 'for example,
key=str.lower. None is
On 10 Okt., 23:04, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kay Schluehr wrote:
Me too because I don't get this:
key specifies a function of one argument that is used to extract a
comparison key from each list element: key=str.lower. The default
value is None.
I am not sure what you do not
Does Python 3 have no way anymore to sort with a comparison function?
Both [].sort() and sorted() seem to accept only 'key' and 'reverse' arguments,
the 'cmp' argument seems to be gone. Can that be?
Thomas
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Thomas Heller:
the 'cmp' argument seems to be gone. Can that be?
Yes, that's a wonderful thing, because from the code I see around
99.9% of people see the cmp and just use it, totally ignoring the
presence of the 'key' argument, that allows better and shorter
solutions of the sorting problem.
Thomas Heller wrote:
Does Python 3 have no way anymore to sort with a comparison function?
Both [].sort() and sorted() seem to accept only 'key' and 'reverse' arguments,
the 'cmp' argument seems to be gone. Can that be?
Yes. When this was discussed, no one could come up with an actual use
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