Note the the sort arguments are required to be keywords.

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Raymond Hettinger 2008-02-14 13:34:38 +00:00
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commit 7f73295966
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@ -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: