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Tue Feb 18 22:24:40 CET 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-February/132482.html

On 18 February 2014 21:17, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> What I'd *really* like to be able to write is:
>
>    sort(invoices, keyattr = 'duedate', none = 'first')

Which is of course a pretty trivial utility function to write. But I
understand your point - these "trivial helpers" add up over time into
a bit of a burden. But fixing that (if anyone feels it's worth doing
so) can be handled many ways, and changing the semantics of None is
far from the simplest or most obvious.

Pul

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