New submission from Terry J. Reedy:
https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/functools.html#functools.cmp_to_key says
A key function is a callable that accepts one argument and returns another
value indicating the position in the desired collation sequence. A python
list poster (Veek M) 'value
Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
I'll add a link to the glossary entry for key function and to the sorting
howto. Also, I'll change value indicating the position to value to be used
as the sort key.
The form sentence being discussed should probably remain close to how it is
currently
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
I agree with your comments and proposed changes and will leave this to you.
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Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset dbe1744ec62e by Raymond Hettinger in branch '2.7':
Issue 22830: Clarify docs for functools.cmp_to_key().
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/dbe1744ec62e
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Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 63274cf1b40d by Raymond Hettinger in branch '3.4':
Issue 22830: Clarify docs for functools.cmp_to_key().
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/63274cf1b40d
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Changes by Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettin...@gmail.com:
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status: open - closed
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