Georg Brandl wrote:
Seeing how you need a key function in any case for this sort to work, it's only the "or mindate" added, which I can't recognize as "ridiculous amount of boilerplate".
Well, I don't much like having to construct a key function in the first place for something as common as sorting on an attribute. Also, in the particular case of dates, there's the annoying fact that the datetime module doesn't provide any kind of null object that can be compared with datetimes, so you have to make a fake one yourself. All of these small annoyances add up to what is, for me, a fairly big annoyance. What I'd *really* like to be able to write is: sort(invoices, keyattr = 'duedate', none = 'first') -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
