Where are list methods documented?

[Brian van den Broek]

Grant Edwards said unto the world upon 2005-02-01 12:21:
> 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 only
> thing I can find on a list's sort() method is in the tutorial
> where it states:
> 
>    sort()
>        Sort the items of the list, in place. 
> 
> Doesn't the list method would accept a callable to be used as a
> comparison function?  Where is that sort of thing in the
> documentation?  I've looking in the library reference, the
> language reference, the global module index.
> 
> I have figured out I can do 
> 
> 
>>>>list.sort.__doc__
> 
> 'L.sort(cmpfunc=None) -- stable sort *IN PLACE*; cmpfunc(x, y) -> -1, 0, 1'
> 

Hi,

I'm not positive I understand what you are looking for, but do these 
help?:

<http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-15>
<http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/typesseq.html>
<http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/typesseq-mutable.html>

Best,
Brian vdB