On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:42, Mark Russell wrote:
> I have a trivial wrapper function sortcopy() in my
> I-wish-these-were-builtins module:
>
> def sortcopy(vals, cmpfunc=None):
> """Non in-place wrapper for list.sort()."""
> copy = list(vals)
> copy.sort(cmpfunc)
> return copy
>
> I use this more often than list.sort(), because most of the time
> performance and memory use is not an issue and code using the in-place
> version is irritatingly verbose. Maybe this is worth adding as a
> builtin, to satisfy the people that want a non in-place sort.
No. This is so easy to write, we're all destined to write it again and
again <0.4 wink>. I also use sort():
def sort(L):
L.sort()
return L
Jeremy
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