New submission from Edward D'Souza:
The list of built-in functions at the top of
https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html is not alphabetical.
Specifically, (apply, coerce, intern, buffer) allow appear out of order at the
end of the list, instead of where they should be alphabeti
Edward D'Souza added the comment:
Doesn't make sense to me. The page says "They are listed here in alphabetical
order.", which isn't true.
Furthermore, not putting them in order screws up people who assume it is in
alphabetical order and try to search for a function w
Edward D'Souza added the comment:
I think putting them in a separate table is good, but I think it makes more
sense to appear right below the existing table at the top of the page. For
better or worse, these "non-essential" functions are still builtins in Python 2.
It would b
