Bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> writes: > sorting, and something that's surely not bug-prone. In such situation > having a 'key' argument is *better*. Such sort can be stable.
Nothing stops comparison sorting from being stable. Since the rest of your post seems premised on the opposite, I hope that clears things up for you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list