[Tutor] advanced sorting

[Kent Johnson]

chinni wrote:
> 
> 
> In Advance Sorting by giving the keywords to sort the list.But, iam 
> getting the fallowing errors
> 
>  >>> x = ['srikanth', 'kumar', 'muppandam', 'will', 'be', 'a']
>  >>> x.sort(key=len)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: sort() takes no keyword arguments
>  >>> x.sort(reverse=True)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: sort() takes no keyword arguments

Are you using an old version of Python? Support for sort(key=fn) was 
added in Python 2.4.

Kent