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[Muness Alrubaie]

From: Matthew Good <trac at matt-good.net>
>
> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 16:10 -0400, Muness Alrubaie wrote:
> > On a different note, the sorted implementation in util.py is bit less
> > handy than it should be, methinks.  Here's a patch that works (at
> > least for my needs):
> >
> > -   def sorted(iterable, cmp=None, key=None, reverse=False):
> > +  def sorted(iterable, cmp=None, key=str, reverse=False):
> >       """Partial implementation of the "sorted" function from Python 2.4"""
> >        lst = [(key(i), i) for i in iterable]
> >        lst.sort()
>
> This method is meant give the same result as "sorted" in Python 2.4 for
> the implemented parameters ("key" and "reverse"), so "str" cannot be the
> default for "key".  If you need to sort values based on their string
> representation you'll need to explicitly pass the parameter.

The current sorted implementation throws an exception if no key
function is passed unlike Python 2.4 which doesn't require a key
function to work properly.  It seemed like a default key of str was
reasonable if none was passed in.  I am a newbie to Python and just
used the first thing that seemed reasonable to me.

What might be a more compatible function?

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> Matthew Good <trac at matt-good.net>