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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-12-03 22:08:57 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-12-03 22:08:57 (GMT)
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Streamline mention of sorted()
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@@ -625,10 +625,10 @@ order to remind you of that fact, it does not return the sorted list. This way,
you won't be fooled into accidentally overwriting a list when you need a sorted
copy but also need to keep the unsorted version around.
-In Python 2.4 a new built-in function -- :func:`sorted` -- has been added.
-This function creates a new list from a provided iterable, sorts it and returns
-it. For example, here's how to iterate over the keys of a dictionary in sorted
-order::
+If you want to return a new list, use the built-in :func:`sorted` function
+instead. This function creates a new list from a provided iterable, sorts
+it and returns it. For example, here's how to iterate over the keys of a
+dictionary in sorted order::
for key in sorted(mydict):
... # do whatever with mydict[key]...