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Author socketpair
Recipients Trundle, brian.curtin, giampaolo.rodola, loewis, neologix, nvetoshkin, pitrou, socketpair, terry.reedy
Date 2011-03-09.05:43:13
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Message-id <1299649393.96.0.50719136456.issue11406@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> -1 on going back through blah/xblah all over again.

Originally, I want return value of listdir to be changed from list to generator. But next, I thought about compatibility. It will break some code. For example, SimpleHTTPServer:

list = os.listdir(path)
list.sort(key=lambda a: a.lower())

will not work.
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Date User Action Args
2011-03-09 05:43:14socketpairsetrecipients: + socketpair, loewis, terry.reedy, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, Trundle, brian.curtin, nvetoshkin, neologix
2011-03-09 05:43:13socketpairsetmessageid: <1299649393.96.0.50719136456.issue11406@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-03-09 05:43:13socketpairlinkissue11406 messages
2011-03-09 05:43:13socketpaircreate