On 2005-02-01, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Grant Edwards]
>> I'm trying to figure out how to sort a list, and I've run into
>> a problem that that I have tripped over constantly for years:
>> where are the methods of basic types documented?
>
> The methods on mutable sequence types are documented in the
> Library manual's section on mutable sequence types:
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-mutable.html
> You could have found the above by, e.g., looking up "sort" in the
> Library manual's index.
I did. I looked up sort in the library index, and it took me
to 3.3.5 Emulating container types, which said:
Mutable sequences should provide methods append(), count(),
index(), extend(), insert(), pop(), remove(), reverse() and
sort(), like Python standard list objects.
I also looked at quite a few "list" links in the index.
I don't think it's at all obvious that the documentation for
list.sort would be under "mutable sequence object".
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