Grant Edwards wrote:
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'
Grant,
For a quick, short doc string list: >>> help(list)
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