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

Tue Oct 28 10:18:45 EST 2003

> Okay, this is the last chance to come-up with a name other than
> sorted().
>> Here are some alternatives:
>> inlinesort() # immediately clear how it is different from sort()
> sortedcopy() # clear that it makes a copy and does a sort
> newsorted() # appropriate for a class method constructor
>>> I especially like the last one and all of them provide a distinction
> from list.sort().

While we're voting, I still like list.sorted() best, so please keep
that one in the list of possibilities.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)