list.sort(cmpfunc) question

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3ab2a132 at si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de>,
Simon Budig  <Simon.Budig at unix-ag.org> wrote:
>
>As a related question since I did not find it in the documentation:
>
>Is the sort-function guaranteed to be stable? Does it keep the order,
>when cmpfunc returns 0 for a pair of items?

IIRC, the current implementation is stable but is not guaranteed to be
stable.
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