Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Oct 13 20:48:47 EDT 2003

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Guido:

> >    [s for s in lst sortby s.lower()]
> 
> It suffers IMO from the "SQL syndrome": having reserved words to the
> language that are only meaningful in a very specific syntax yet are
> reserved everywhere.

It could probably be a non-reserved keyword in this case.

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