See below (nothing earth shattering tho) ;) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com> To: "Shane Hathaway" <shane@digicool.com> Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] case insensitive sorts
Shane Hathaway wrote:
Python's sort() lets you sort based on not only strings but also tuples, lists, and numbers, which is a very useful feature. Thus sort() is intended to be a highly generalized method. It is useful but not ideal for sorting text strings. What you *really* want is a second method, perhaps in a new module (called "textops" or something similar) that would also include multilingual text splitters and other utilities for working with human-readable text.
I agree that's a good idea, but all I'm talking about is the simple case of sorting strings, in which python's current implementation isn't very helpful and I don't see any situation where sorting:
Andrew David Wayne bart sophie
is better than sorting:
Andrew bart David sophie Wayne
That's only because you use NT (ach spit). ;)
cheers,
Chris
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