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

Sun Oct 19 19:34:47 EDT 2003

> From: Alex Martelli [mailto:aleaxit at yahoo.com]
>> I think we SHOULD have modules corresponding to built-in types,
> if there are important functions connected with those types but not
> appropriate as methods to populate them. Perhaps we could use the 
> User*.py modules for the purpose, but making new ones seems
> better.

Well, we already have a precedent for this - the 'Sets' module.
So if we use the same naming convention ...
For discrete types:
 Lists
 Dicts
 Tuples
 Sets
for interfaces:
 Iterators
 Iterables
and for a catch-all
 Objects
Then we just have to argue over what goes where ;)
Tim Delaney