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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 8c11c1b..6635b0e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1149,6 +1149,9 @@ application). fail, the entire sort operation will fail (and the list will likely be left in a partially modified state). + :meth:`sort` accepts two arguments that can only be passed by keyword + (:ref:`keyword-only arguments <keyword-only_parameter>`): + *key* specifies a function of one argument that is used to extract a comparison key from each list element (for example, ``key=str.lower``). The key corresponding to each item in the list is calculated once and |