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0 points_ZeD_12y ago0 comments

They resolve differenti problems: say you have a list of complex object, and you wanna sort by an attribute, you can use

    mylist.sort(key=lambda element: element.attribute)

Elsewere, say you want to sort a non-omogeneous list, or according to a custom order (attribute1 descending, attribute2 ascending) cmp make this easy

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philh12y ago

I think ve was saying, ve doesn't see the difference between python's `sort(key=...)` and perl6's `sort { one-arg block }`. (At any rate, I don't see that difference.)

rmc12y ago

Elsewere, say you want to sort a non-omogeneous list, or according to a custom order (attribute1 descending, attribute2 ascending) cmp make this easy

You can do this in python with the key function returning a list/tuple:

    mylist.sort(key=lambda element: (element.attribute1, -element.attribute2))

_ZeD_OP12y ago

I'm not sure you can do -"string" :)

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