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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2003-12-17 20:50:46 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2003-12-17 20:50:46 (GMT)
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Guido grants a Christmas wish:
sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/liboperator.tex b/Doc/lib/liboperator.tex
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@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ Example: Build a dictionary that maps the ordinals from \code{0} to
The \module{operator} module also defines tools for generalized attribute
and item lookups. These are useful for making fast field extractors
-as arguments for \function{map()}, \method{list.sort()},
+as arguments for \function{map()}, \function{sorted()},
\method{itertools.groupby()}, or other functions that expect a
function argument.
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ Examples:
>>> getcount = itemgetter(1)
>>> map(getcount, inventory)
[3, 2, 5, 1]
->>> list.sorted(inventory, key=getcount)
+>>> sorted(inventory, key=getcount)
[('orange', 1), ('banana', 2), ('apple', 3), ('pear', 5)]
\end{verbatim}