Ole Laursen <o...@iola.dk> added the comment: If you think it's too long, here's a shorter version:
Sorts sequence in place with a fast stable sort, returning None. key is a function for extracting a comparison key from each element, e.g. key=lambda x: x['name'] or key=str.lower. reverse=True reverses the result order. a = [1, 3, 2] a.sort() # a is now [1, 2, 3] Use the "sorted()" built-in function if you need to preserve the original list. Is this better? You could whack the last comment about sorted and/or the example, then it's about the same length as the other built-in docstrings (e.g. zip, reduce, getattr). ---------- nosy: -rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7257> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
