[issue10891] Tweak sorting howto to eliminate redundancy

2011-02-05 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Made some tweaks r88358. Sorry, I'm leaving the list.sort references as-is. I consider them to be important in a document that needs to clearly differentiate list.sort from __builtin__.sorted(). -- assignee:

[issue10891] Tweak sorting howto to eliminate redundancy

2011-02-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: I do think that list.sort() method of a list is a bit too much. -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10891

[issue10891] Tweak sorting howto to eliminate redundancy

2011-01-31 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: You can put in the backslashes before the two periods, but not the other changes. I want the method names to continue to be spelled-out in full so that it is more clear what they are referring to. Even in spoken English, I

[issue10891] Tweak sorting howto to eliminate redundancy

2011-01-12 Thread Éric Araujo
New submission from Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: When reading over the sorting howto, I noticed redundancy of the form “the list.sort() method of a list”. Raymond, if you approve the attached patch, please assign back to me. There were no warnings during doc build and no link was broken.