Ole Laursen o...@iola.dk added the comment:
Okay. I can only say that while the current docstrings are likely good
reminders for you, knowing Python in and out, they were pretty useless to me as
documentation, which I believe docstrings should be, they're called docstrings,
after all, not
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:
After more thought, am leaving the doc strings as-is. They are succinct and
accurate. I have updated the sorting how-to to more thoroughly cover the
basics of sorting.
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Ole Laursen o...@iola.dk added the comment:
OK, thanks! :) Sorry about the unintended nosy list removal, my browser
got me there.
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New submission from Ole Laursen o...@iola.dk:
On my Python 3.1, help() for sorted returns
sort(...)
L.sort(key=None, reverse=False) -- stable sort *IN PLACE*
sorted(...)
sorted(iterable, key=None, reverse=False) -- new sorted list
Kindly suggest this be expanded. Here's some text:
Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment:
Raymond, do you have an opinion on this?
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Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:
I'm inclined to leave the on-line help docstring as-is (pretty much
everywhere, we adopt a style of terse reminders instead of lengthy prose
with examples).
Instead, was thinking of updating the sorting how-to and providing
Changes by Georg Brandl ge...@python.org:
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Ole Laursen o...@iola.dk added the comment:
If you think it's too long, here's a shorter version:
Sorts sequence in place with a fast stable sort, returning None. key is
a function for extracting a comparison key from each element, e.g.
key=lambda x: x['name'] or key=str.lower. reverse=True
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:
Will look at it and make an update, but not right away.
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