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

Sat Oct 18 05:44:35 EDT 2003

On Sat, 2003年10月18日 at 07:07, Brett C. wrote:
> I'm -1 as well. Lists do not need to grow a method for something that 
> only replaces two lines of code that are not tricky in any form of the word.

And don't forget that the trivial function will sort any iterable, not
just lists. I think
	for member in copysort(someset):
is better than
	for member in list(someset).copysort():
I'm against list.copysort(), and for either leaving things unchanged or
adding copysort() as a builtin (especially if it can use the reference
count trick to avoid unnecessary copies).
Mark Russell