[Python-Dev] Mutable sequence .sort() signature

[Guido van Rossum]

Also, pretty prominent, in the what's new in 3.0 doc.

On Feb 12, 2008 6:39 PM, Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk at shore.net> wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> writes:
>
> > [Kurt]
> >> Looking at the various py3k docs and mail lists, etc. I just can't
> >> find the specification and discussion of the signature change
> >> eliminating the comparison function (so far)!
> >
> > There is a note Misc/NEWS and I believe the 2-to-3 folks are looking
> > at a conversion. The Py3.0 docs have the new signature (same as
> > the old one but it no longer accepts a cmp function and to prevent
> > accidents keyword arguments are required).
>
> Yes, I see you changed those docs.  But I think we need to give better
> notice that this is one of the py3k incompatibilities.
>
> > I'm not sure where else to document it.
>
> I'd say in PEP3100.  Here's a patch:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue2092
>
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