Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
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On Feb 13, 2008 12:09 PM, Daniel Stutzbach
<daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote:
> Without the cmp argument, what's the concise way to spell something like
> "sort a list of floats by absolute value"?  It'd be nice to have a stock
> example to help users rewrite their code to work with 3.0.

L.sort(key=abs)

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