> one of the reasons i prefer python to ruby. sorted(my_thing) will sort anything that can be sorted. no need for monkey patching sort() in ruby is declared on

> one of the reasons i prefer python to ruby. sorted(my_thing) will sort anything that can be sorted. no need for monkey patching sort() in ruby is declared on Enumerable. Sorted() in python is declared to take an iterable first parameter. They are pretty much equivalent, except python has built-in functionality to reverse the order of the output array, while ruby you would have to negate your sort function. Ruby however allows types to override sort, such as when the underlying type is a red black tree which is already sorted. For duck typing, you can also declare a compatible sort method on types which do not implement Enumerable - doing so in python would require a separate method.