From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:52:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Note that the key and reverse arguments must be specified as keywords
X-Git-Tag: v3.0a3~55
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Note that the key and reverse arguments must be specified as keywords
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index df3e16ce1d53..18e827015a48 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -979,9 +979,7 @@ available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
 
    Return a new sorted list from the items in *iterable*.
 
-   The optional arguments *key* and *reverse* have the same meaning as
-   those for the :meth:`list.sort` method (described in section
-   :ref:`typesseq-mutable`).
+   Has two optional arguments which must be specified as keyword arguments.
 
    *key* specifies a function of one argument that is used to extract a comparison
    key from each list element: ``key=str.lower``.  The default value is ``None``.