Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> May I suggest rejecting PEP 265.
>
> As of Py2.4, its use case is easily solved with:
>
> >>> sorted(d.iteritems(), key=itemgetter(1), reverse=True)
> [('b', 23), ('d', 17), ('c', 5), ('a', 2), ('e', 1)]
+1.
I find that usually when I want something like this, I use:
sorted(d, key=d.__getitem__, reverse=True)
because it doesn't require the operator module and most of the time I
just need the keys anyway.
py> sorted(d, key=d.__getitem__, reverse=True)
['b', 'd', 'c', 'a', 'e']
Steve
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