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[Henning Eggers <henning.eggers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 19.08.2010 11:25, schrieb Graham Binns:
> On 19 August 2010 10:16, Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> - Multiple objects in one import statement are each placed on a line by
>>> itself, in list style (the core of this change). Objects are sorted
>>> alphabetically using Python's "sorted" function which sorts Capital letters
>>> *first*. I know this is a change to the previous style but who are we to argue
>>> with Python? ;)
>>
>> Python does both - it all depends if you are running in C locale and
>> doing byte wise or an English locale and locale aware sorting. As the
>> end result is supposed to be read and used by humans, I'd go for
>> locale aware and make the sorting case insensitive.
> 
> +1 for case-insensitive sorting. Case-sensitive sorting will just
> annoy people in the long run.
> 

+1, I am all for that, too.

Henning