Bengt Richter wrote: > For me the implication of "sorted" is that there is a sorting algorithm > that can be used to create an ordering from a prior state of order, > whereas "ordered" could be the result of arbitrary permutation, e.g., > manual shuffling, etc. Of course either way, a result can be said > to have a particular defined order, but "sorted" gets ordered > by sorting, and "ordered" _may_ get its order by any means. > But Alex seems to think that based on another external table should be classified as "sorted" whereas I would consider it as "manual shuffling", thus "ordered".
I may be wrong it interpreting him though, which is why I want to clarify. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
