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r79168 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:01:27 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line
Fix some issues found by Jacques Ducasse on the docs list.
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r79169 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:02:01 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line
Remove the "built-in objects" file. It only contained two paragraphs of which only one contained useful information, which belongs in the ref manual however.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 6741db7..75bab9e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@
This function can also be used to execute arbitrary code objects (such as
those created by :func:`compile`). In this case pass a code object instead
of a string. If the code object has been compiled with ``'exec'`` as the
- *kind* argument, :func:`eval`\'s return value will be ``None``.
+ *mode* argument, :func:`eval`\'s return value will be ``None``.
Hints: dynamic execution of statements is supported by the :func:`exec`
function. The :func:`globals` and :func:`locals` functions
@@ -1008,7 +1008,8 @@
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``.
+ key from each list element: ``key=str.lower``. The default value is ``None``
+ (compare the elements directly).
*reverse* is a boolean value. If set to ``True``, then the list elements are
sorted as if each comparison were reversed.