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authorEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2011-05-17 02:39:22 (GMT)
committerEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2011-05-17 02:39:22 (GMT)
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#12092: backport rephrasing of a paragraph in the tutorial.
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@@ -455,10 +455,9 @@ and of course it would print::
shopkeeper : Michael Palin
sketch : Cheese Shop Sketch
-Note that the :meth:`sort` method of the list of keyword argument names is
-called before printing the contents of the ``keywords`` dictionary; if this is
-not done, the order in which the arguments are printed is undefined.
-
+Note that the list of keyword argument names is created by sorting the result
+of the keywords dictionary's ``keys()`` method before printing its contents;
+if this is not done, the order in which the arguments are printed is undefined.
.. _tut-arbitraryargs: