[Python-Dev] decorate-sort-undecorate

Mon Oct 13 21:00:58 EDT 2003

Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com>:
> [s for s in lst sortby s.lower()]
>> It reads nicely, and avoids lambdas and tiny helper functions. Also 
> handles the sort-returns-None criticism. But it adds syntax.

And makes the definition of list semantics in terms of
an equivalent for-loop nest much less elegant.
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