copysort patch, was RE: [Python-Dev] inline sort option

Fri Oct 17 23:20:31 EDT 2003

> FWIW, I've posted a patch to implement list.copysort() that
> includes a news announcement, docs, and unittests:
>> www.python.org/sf/825814

Despite my suggesting a better name, I'm not in favor of this (let's
say -0).
For one, this will surely make lots of people write
 for key in D.keys().copysort():
 ...
which makes an unnecessary copy of the keys. I'd rather continue to
write
 keys = D.keys()
 keys.sort()
 for key in keys:
 ...
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)