I'm trying to figure out how to sort a list, and I've run into a problem that that I have tripped over constantly for years: where are the methods of basic types documented? The only thing I can find on a list's sort() method is in the tutorial where it states:
sort()
Sort the items of the list, in place.
Doesn't the list method would accept a callable to be used as a comparison function? Where is that sort of thing in the documentation? I've looking in the library reference, the language reference, the global module index.
I have figured out I can do
list.sort.__doc__
'L.sort(cmpfunc=None) -- stable sort *IN PLACE*; cmpfunc(x, y) -> -1, 0, 1'
Hi,
I'm not positive I understand what you are looking for, but do these help?:
<http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-15> <http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/typesseq.html> <http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/typesseq-mutable.html>
Best, Brian vdB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
