Brendon Towle wrote: >> b) http://pyfaq.infogami.com/why-doesn-t-list-sort-return-the-sorted-list >> (this also explains how to handle your specific use case) > > Well, I posted working code, so I thought it should have been obvious > that I knew how to handle my use case, and was (am) looking for a > language-design level answer as opposed to a working-code level answer. > Besides, the article above (although useful *and* freshly modified) > doesn't explain how to handle the use case I posted with append(), or > the ones I didn't post with extend(), insert(), remove(), dict.update(), > and a bunch of others I can't think of off the top of my head.
by the way, why are you asking for inconsistency in a thread about consistency ? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
