On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل) <emadnaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/1/20 Kent Johnson <ken...@tds.net> >> decorate-sort-undecorate is pretty much obsolete since the key= >> parameter was added to sort() in Python 2.4.
> When you say that something is obsolete, what does this mean? Is that just > because there is a simpler way, or are there other technical considerations? In this case, it is because there is a better, simpler way. Decorate-sort-undecorate used to be the recommended way to sort on a key; now key= is preferred. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
