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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2008-02-14 13:34:38 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2008-02-14 13:34:38 (GMT) |
| commit | 7f73295966733ba99581c660944e8894f753edcc (patch) | |
| tree | df7b729ce091ac44b8e8e9bbbdba50740ab6054e /Doc | |
| parent | 7116186691681cddb96ea60276af0a343ac98e9e (diff) | |
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Note the the sort arguments are required to be keywords.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index c90b0a5..58905e0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1266,7 +1266,7 @@ Note that while lists allow their items to be of any type, bytearray object | ``s.reverse()`` | reverses the items of *s* in | \(6) | | | place | | +------------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------------+ -| ``s.sort([key[, reverse]])`` | sort the items of *s* in place | (6), (7) | +| ``s.sort([key[, reverse]])`` | sort the items of *s* in place | (6), (7), (8) | +------------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------------+ .. index:: @@ -1315,10 +1315,8 @@ Notes: sequence. (7) - :meth:`sort` is not supported by :class:`bytearray` objects. - The :meth:`sort` method takes optional arguments for controlling the - comparisons. + comparisons. Each must be specified as a keyword argument. *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``. @@ -1336,6 +1334,8 @@ Notes: makes the list appear empty for the duration, and raises :exc:`ValueError` if it can detect that the list has been mutated during a sort. +(8) + :meth:`sort` is not supported by :class:`bytearray` objects. .. _bytes-methods: |