From b606b3d08af3cc15e880650bab3c773131c4ec66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:50:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Guido grants a Christmas wish: sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod. --- Doc/lib/liboperator.tex | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/liboperator.tex b/Doc/lib/liboperator.tex index ab68d0e01f5..2d46b4d22e3 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/liboperator.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/liboperator.tex @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ Example: Build a dictionary that maps the ordinals from \code{0} to The \module{operator} module also defines tools for generalized attribute and item lookups. These are useful for making fast field extractors -as arguments for \function{map()}, \method{list.sort()}, +as arguments for \function{map()}, \function{sorted()}, \method{itertools.groupby()}, or other functions that expect a function argument. @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ Examples: >>> getcount = itemgetter(1) >>> map(getcount, inventory) [3, 2, 5, 1] ->>> list.sorted(inventory, key=getcount) +>>> sorted(inventory, key=getcount) [('orange', 1), ('banana', 2), ('apple', 3), ('pear', 5)] \end{verbatim}