On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stéfan van der Walt wrote: > > At first, I also thought it might be more intuitive to return the > > output array, but then I realised that it would make it more difficult > > to realise that the operation is being performed in-place. Maybe it > > is good to remind programmers of what happens under the hood, so that > > they are not surprised later when their data is "corrupted". > > That is essentially the core reason for the behavior of list.sort(). > IIRC, it is also the case that Guido doesn't like the a.foo().bar().oops() style of programming, preferring one operation/line. Chuck
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