From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:38:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Guido grants a Christmas wish:
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~1075
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a95e87a48822ac459fddb2e81c3f7583a70a56e3;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Guido grants a Christmas wish:
  sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.
---

diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
index b03f6830818e..cbec92ca6299 100644
--- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex
+++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
@@ -2211,6 +2211,20 @@ function.
 1
 \end{verbatim}
 
+To loop over a sequence in sorted order, use the \function{sorted()}
+function which returns a new sorted list while leaving the source
+unaltered.
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+>>> basket = ['apple', 'orange', 'apple', 'pear', 'orange', 'banana']
+>>> for f in sorted(set(basket)):
+...     print f
+... 	
+apple
+banana
+orange
+pear
+\end{verbatim}
 
 \section{More on Conditions \label{conditions}}