On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The Python list.sort() method is guaranteed to be >> stable. I can't find a comparable guarantee for sorted() > > https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/functions.html#sorted
Right, sorry. Since all I looked at was its docstring, I should have said so :) So, yep, sorted() is guaranteed stable too, and that would be the easiest way to subsort something. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
