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[Python-Dev] Mutable sequence .sort() signature

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Wed Feb 13 03:39:39 CET 2008 
Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> writes:

> [Kurt]
>> Looking at the various py3k docs and mail lists, etc. I just can't
>> find the specification and discussion of the signature change 
>> eliminating the comparison function (so far)!
>
> There is a note Misc/NEWS and I believe the 2-to-3 folks are looking
> at a conversion. The Py3.0 docs have the new signature (same as
> the old one but it no longer accepts a cmp function and to prevent
> accidents keyword arguments are required). 

Yes, I see you changed those docs.  But I think we need to give better
notice that this is one of the py3k incompatibilities.

> I'm not sure where else to document it.

I'd say in PEP3100.  Here's a patch:

http://bugs.python.org/issue2092

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KBK
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