Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: > This is a requirement for all implementations claiming to be 2.3 or > higher.
the language reference only guarantees this for CPython: The C implementation of Python 2.3 introduced a stable sort() method, but code that intends to be portable across implementations and versions must not rely on stability. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list