On Apr 5, 8:23 am, Iain King <iaink...@gmail.com> wrote: > A common one used to be expecting .sort() to return, rather than mutate (as > it does). Same with .reverse() - sorted and reversed have this covered, not > sure how common a gotcha it is any more. >
The sort()/sorted() variations are good to cover. To give another example, folks who had been immersed in legacy versions of Python for a long time might still be in the habit of hand-writing compare functions. With newer versions of Python, it usually makes sense to just use the "key" feature. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
