[Python-Dev] Out-of-date FAQs (original) (raw)

Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) tdelaney at avaya.com
Tue Jan 4 00:25:23 CET 2005

While grabbing the link to the copyright restrictions FAQ (for someone on python-list) I noticed a few out-of-date FAQ entries - specifically, "most stable version" and "Why doesn't list.sort() return the sorted list?". Bug reports have been submitted (and acted on - Raymond, you work too fast ;)

I think it's important that the FAQs be up-to-date with the latest idioms, etc, so as I have the time available I intend to review all the existing FAQs that I'm qualified for.

As a general rule, when an idiom has changed, do we want to state both the 2.4 idiom as well as the 2.3 idiom? In the case of list.sort(), that would mean having both:

for key in sorted(dict.iterkeys()):
    ...do whatever with dict[key]...

and

keys = dict.keys()
keys.sort()
for key in keys:
    ...do whatever with dict[key]...

Tim Delaney

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