[Python-Dev] timsort for jython

[Aahz]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>Tim Peters:
>>
>> 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.

Which only goes to prove that the people who've been whining about that
characteristic of find() were right all along.  ;-)
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