Where are list methods documented?
wes weston
wweston at att.net
Tue Feb 1 12:53:13 EST 2005
Grant Edwards wrote:
> 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'
>
Grant,
For a quick, short doc string list: >>> help(list)
wes
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