diff Doc/lib/liboperator.tex @ 31212:5b035e6e44dc legacy-trunk

Guido grants a Christmas wish: sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.
author Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
date Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:50:46 +0000
parents 456e274f8602
children 67f2190e1f6d
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--- a/Doc/lib/liboperator.tex	Wed Dec 17 20:47:28 2003 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/liboperator.tex	Wed Dec 17 20:50:46 2003 +0000
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
 
 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 @@
 >>> 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}