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Mon Oct 13 18:04:28 EDT 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/038660.html

> I like "sort" better than "decorator"; I would also like "by", as in
> sort(names, by=ages.__getitem__).
> 
> I would also advocate an optional reverse=False argument, so that
> 
> result = sort(names, reverse=True)
> 
> is equivalent to
> 
> result = sort(names)
> result.reverse()

While we're at it, +1.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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