Looking for a different version of sort

[Brian McGonigle]

claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird) wrote in message news:<10d0jvelvgalue5 at corp.supernews.com>...
> In article <8a4484e4.0406151819.6c0538e7 at posting.google.com>,
> Brian McGonigle <BigsyNY at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >I'm a Perl programmer learning Python (up to chapter 7 in Learning
> >Python, so go easy on me :-) and I find that I look to do things in
> >Python the way I would do them in Perl. In Perl functions and methods
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> Incidentally, is that the first or second edition you're reading?

First, thanks to all for the solutions. In another 40 pages I'll hit
the functions chapter and won't have to ask such newbie questions!

It's the second edition I'm reading, which covers Python 2.3. By the
way, what's the most common release? In Perl, I consider anything
older than 5.6 ancient and don't consider backwards compatability
beyond that point. Since programming is just a hobby, and I don't have
any customers, that's easy to do. For instance, I saw somewhere that
in 1.5 and prior, dir() wasn't available and you would have to use the
__method__ method or something similar to that. Should I worry about
stuff that old?