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diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst index b6a0e17..627ee4e 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/design.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst @@ -649,9 +649,10 @@ 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 builtin -- :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:: +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:: for key in sorted(mydict): ... # do whatever with mydict[key]... |