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Antoine Pitrou 2011-12-03 23:08:57 +01:00
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@ -625,10 +625,10 @@ order to remind you of that fact, it does not return the sorted list. This way,
you won't be fooled into accidentally overwriting a list when you need a sorted
copy but also need to keep the unsorted version around.
In Python 2.4 a new built-in function -- :func:`sorted` -- has been added.
This function creates a new list from a provided iterable, sorts it and returns
it. For example, here's how to iterate over the keys of a dictionary in sorted
order::
If you want to return a new list, use the built-in :func:`sorted` function
instead. This function creates a new list from a provided iterable, sorts
it and returns it. For example, here's how to iterate over the keys of a
dictionary in sorted order::
for key in sorted(mydict):
... # do whatever with mydict[key]...