Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
Since I'm a unix person, I would have typed
pydoc -k sort
But it doesn't come up with anything useful :-(
FYI, you can get this info using the not-very-intuitive
pydoc __builtin__.list.sort
e.g.
(C:\Python23\Lib) $ pydoc __builtin__.list.sort Help on method_descriptor in __builtin__.list:
__builtin__.list.sort = sort(...)
L.sort(cmpfunc=None) -- stable sort *IN PLACE*; cmpfunc(x, y) -> -1, 0, 1
(Rather terse...)
Info on the sort function (together with all the other list methods) is also available if you do
pydoc list
...but for some reason, "pydoc list.sort" doesn't work on my machine (Python 2.3.4, Windows XP).
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