Tim Peters <t...@python.org> added the comment:
Steven, thanks for noticing the docs! I was surprised to hear it wasn't documented, but not surprised enough to check myself ;-) This decision was suggested by me, and endorsed by Guido, when designing timsort looking ahead to Python 3, where __cmp__ was going to vanish. The convenience of needing to add only a single method to support a custom sort order is considerable. Since it's working as designed and dccumented, and I know for certain that code in the wild relises on it, I'm inclined to reject this report. However, rather than add more words to `sorted()`, I'd suggest removing words from `sorted()`, pointing instead to the `.sort()` docs for all specification of `sorted()`'s sorting behavior. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35654> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
