[issue1491804] Simple slice support for list.sort() and .reverse()

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[issue1491804] Simple slice support for list.sort() and .reverse()

R. David Murray added the comment: In fact, I find the proposed syntax *less* obvious than the slice syntax, for sorted. IOW, I'd be -1 on adding these to sorted. The potentially useful case is between l[a:b] = sorted(l[a:b}) vs l.sort(start=a, stop=b) where the interesting bit i

[issue1491804] Simple slice support for list.sort() and .reverse()

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I'm rejecting this feature request on the grounds that the use cases are sufficiently uncommon to warrant adding API complexity. Currently, the notions of reverse() and sort() are comparatively simple. They correspond well to what I see in other languag

[issue1491804] Simple slice support for list.sort() and .reverse()

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[issue1491804] Simple slice support for list.sort() and .reverse()

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[issue1491804] Simple slice support for list.sort() and .reverse()

Mark Lawrence added the comment: I can't see any sense in doing a patch review on this until there is agreement that the patch is actually needed. Having read the initially referenced thread on groups.google.de I'm not convinced that this is going to happen. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy __

[issue1491804] Simple slice support for list.sort() and .reverse()

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