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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2008-02-14 13:52:24 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2008-02-14 13:52:24 (GMT)
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Note that the key and reverse arguments must be specified as keywords
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@@ -979,9 +979,7 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
Return a new sorted list from the items in *iterable*.
- The optional arguments *key* and *reverse* have the same meaning as
- those for the :meth:`list.sort` method (described in section
- :ref:`typesseq-mutable`).
+ Has two optional arguments which must be specified as keyword arguments.
*key* specifies a function of one argument that is used to extract a comparison
key from each list element: ``key=str.lower``. The default value is ``None``.