Where are list methods documented?

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 12:37:47 EST 2005


[Grant Edwards]
> I'm trying to figure out how to sort a list, and I've run into
> a problem that that I have tripped over constantly for years:
> where are the methods of basic types documented?

The methods on mutable sequence types are documented in the Library
manual's section on mutable sequence types:

    http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-mutable.html

> The only thing I can find on a list's sort() method is in the tutorial
> where it states:

You could have found the above by, e.g., looking up "sort" in the
Library manual's index.



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