On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > The subject refers to the list sort method given here > http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list. I believe that the > "*," bit is simply a typo, given that the docs also state "sort() accepts > two arguments that can only be passed by keyword". Am I correct?
The *, means that they're keyword-only arguments. It prevents you from passing them positionally. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list