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Mon Apr 5 15:03:39 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-April/099076.html

Greg Ewing wrote:
>> * Even though the order isn’t important for code, it’s convenient at
>> the interactive prompt to see the methods of an item in alphabetical
>> order for quick scanning.
> 
> Since I suspect this is most people's main use for
> dir(), I think it's a good enough reason for leaving
> things as they are.

Yes, I was going to point out that I would personally be *very* annoyed
if someone removed the automatic sorting from the output of dir() :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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