From 7f73295966733ba99581c660944e8894f753edcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:34:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note the the sort arguments are required to be keywords. --- Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index c90b0a5f30d..58905e03e50 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1266,7 +1266,7 @@ Note that while lists allow their items to be of any type, bytearray object | ``s.reverse()`` | reverses the items of *s* in | \(6) | | | place | | +------------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------------+ -| ``s.sort([key[, reverse]])`` | sort the items of *s* in place | (6), (7) | +| ``s.sort([key[, reverse]])`` | sort the items of *s* in place | (6), (7), (8) | +------------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------------+ .. index:: @@ -1315,10 +1315,8 @@ Notes: sequence. (7) - :meth:`sort` is not supported by :class:`bytearray` objects. - The :meth:`sort` method takes optional arguments for controlling the - comparisons. + comparisons. Each must be specified as a keyword argument. *key* specifies a function of one argument that is used to extract a comparison key from each list element: ``key=str.lower``. The default value is ``None``. @@ -1336,6 +1334,8 @@ Notes: makes the list appear empty for the duration, and raises :exc:`ValueError` if it can detect that the list has been mutated during a sort. +(8) + :meth:`sort` is not supported by :class:`bytearray` objects. .. _bytes-methods: