On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل) <emadnaw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks John for this. Although the decorate-sort-undecorate idiom looks so > natural to me now, I don't think I would have found it on my own. I have > that deja vu effect towards it. decorate-sort-undecorate is pretty much obsolete since the key= parameter was added to sort() in Python 2.4. Since Python 2.5 you can also use key= with min() and max() so your problem can be solved very simply and tersely: In [1]: words = "man woman children he".split() In [2]: min(words, key=len) Out[2]: 'he' Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
