MRAB <goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com> writes: >>>> sorted(range(9), def key(n): n % 3) > [0, 3, 6, 1, 4, 7, 2, 5, 8]
Given the recent pattern of syntactic constructs for expressions using <expr> <keyword> <expr> (ternary if, listcomps, genexps), and avoiding the use of colon in expressions, maybe it should be: sorted(range(9), key=n % 3 def key(n)) this is analogous to sorted(range(9), foo=n % 3 if bla(n)) It also shares the property that it reuses an existing keyword and avoids the word "lambda", originally (I presume) an homage to Church, now considered obscure-sounding by many. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list