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| author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2001-09-29 01:08:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2001-09-29 01:08:19 +0000 |
| commit | 599db7de6382179155c54dcf675b7af160df395f (patch) | |
| tree | 6dca9c04296127d00d9f57075310f7cb050a72d1 | |
| parent | 84675acb49071977741a97d56c21967fbc520948 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-599db7de6382179155c54dcf675b7af160df395f.tar.gz | |
The list.sort() docs require a function that returns -1, 0 or +1. That's
never been true, and in particular implies cmp() can't be used(!). Get
closer to the truth.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex index 916a1cfa49..b06cd5eb13 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex @@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ Notes: \item[(6)] The \method{sort()} method takes an optional argument specifying a comparison function of two arguments (list items) which - should return \code{-1}, \code{0} or \code{1} depending on whether + should return a negative, zero or positive number depending on whether the first argument is considered smaller than, equal to, or larger than the second argument. Note that this slows the sorting process down considerably; e.g. to sort a list in reverse order it is much |