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Re: Sorting a list

From Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Sorting a list
Date 2016-04-04 09:40 -0400
Message-ID <mailman.16.1459777245.32530.python-list@python.org> (permalink)
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On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, at 02:56, Peter Otten wrote:
> > That works well.  Why is it 'cheating'?
> 
> On second thought it isn't ;)

It does require a numeric type, though. There are lots of types that are
orderable but do not have a negation operator that provides a key with
reversed ordering.

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Sorting a list DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-03 14:30 -0400
  Re: Sorting a list DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-03 14:34 -0400
  Re: Sorting a list Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-03 21:31 +0200
    Re: Sorting a list DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-03 16:08 -0400
      Re: Sorting a list Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-04 08:56 +0200
      Re: Sorting a list Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-04 09:40 -0400
      Re: Sorting a list Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-04 16:12 +0200

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