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diff --git a/Doc/howto/sorting.tex b/Doc/howto/sorting.tex index a849c66..37a7033 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/sorting.tex +++ b/Doc/howto/sorting.tex @@ -110,11 +110,10 @@ types, do the forward sort first, then use the \method{reverse()} method. Here's a case-insensitive string comparison using a \keyword{lambda} function: \begin{verbatim} ->>> import string ->>> a = string.split("This is a test string from Andrew.") ->>> a.sort(lambda x, y: cmp(string.lower(x), string.lower(y))) +>>> a = "This is a test string from Andrew".split() +>>> a.sort(lambda x, y: cmp(x.lower(), y.lower())) >>> print a -['a', 'Andrew.', 'from', 'is', 'string', 'test', 'This'] +['a', 'Andrew', 'from', 'is', 'string', 'test', 'This'] \end{verbatim} This goes through the overhead of converting a word to lower case |