> BTW, list.sort() is stable in CPython iff
>
> [].sort.__doc__.find('stable')
>
> is true.
Um, you meant "is >= 0". The find() method doesn't return a bool, it
returns the first index where the string is found, and -1 if it is not
found.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)