Guido grants a Christmas wish:
sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index adf6718..fbd572f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@
- Added a reversed() builtin function that returns a reverse iterator
over a sequence.
+- Added a sorted() builtin function that returns a new sorted list
+ from any iterable.
+
- CObjects are now mutable (on the C level) through PyCObject_SetVoidPtr.
- list.sort() now supports three keyword arguments: cmp, key, and reverse.
@@ -86,9 +89,6 @@
starting with Py2.3 are guaranteed to be stable (the relative order of
records with equal keys is unchanged).
-- Added a list.sorted() classmethod that returns a new sorted list
- from any iterable.
-
- Added test whether wchar_t is signed or not. A signed wchar_t is not
usable as internal unicode type base for Py_UNICODE since the
unicode implementation assumes an unsigned type.