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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2003-12-17 20:43:33 (GMT)
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Guido grants a Christmas wish:
sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.
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@@ -886,6 +886,15 @@ class C(object):
\samp{a[start:stop, i]}.
\end{funcdesc}
+\begin{funcdesc}{sorted(\var{iterable}\optional{, \var{cmp}=None
+ \optional{, \var{key}=None
+ \optional{, \var{reverse}=False}}})}
+ Return a new sorted list from the items in \var{iterable}.
+ The optional arguments \var{cmp}, \var{key}, and \var{reverse}
+ have the same meaning as those for the \method{list.sort()} method.
+ \versionadded{2.4}
+\end{funcdesc}
+
\begin{funcdesc}{staticmethod}{function}
Return a static method for \var{function}.