Guido grants a Christmas wish:
sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.
diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index 9d6378b..314fb4e 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -1758,6 +1758,50 @@
Round a number to a given precision in decimal digits (default 0 digits).\n\
This always returns a floating point number. Precision may be negative.");
+static PyObject *
+builtin_sorted(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
+{
+ PyObject *newlist, *v, *seq, *compare=NULL, *keyfunc=NULL, *newargs;
+ PyObject *callable;
+ static char *kwlist[] = {"iterable", "cmp", "key", "reverse", 0};
+ long reverse;
+
+ if (args != NULL) {
+ if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwds, "O|OOi:sorted",
+ kwlist, &seq, &compare, &keyfunc, &reverse))
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ newlist = PySequence_List(seq);
+ if (newlist == NULL)
+ return NULL;
+
+ callable = PyObject_GetAttrString(newlist, "sort");
+ if (callable == NULL) {
+ Py_DECREF(newlist);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ newargs = PyTuple_GetSlice(args, 1, 4);
+ if (newargs == NULL) {
+ Py_DECREF(newlist);
+ Py_DECREF(callable);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ v = PyObject_Call(callable, newargs, kwds);
+ Py_DECREF(newargs);
+ Py_DECREF(callable);
+ if (v == NULL) {
+ Py_DECREF(newlist);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ Py_DECREF(v);
+ return newlist;
+}
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(sorted_doc,
+"sorted(iterable, cmp=None, key=None, reverse=False) --> new sorted list");
static PyObject *
builtin_vars(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
@@ -2055,6 +2099,7 @@
{"repr", builtin_repr, METH_O, repr_doc},
{"round", builtin_round, METH_VARARGS, round_doc},
{"setattr", builtin_setattr, METH_VARARGS, setattr_doc},
+ {"sorted", (PyCFunction)builtin_sorted, METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS, sorted_doc},
{"sum", builtin_sum, METH_VARARGS, sum_doc},
#ifdef Py_USING_UNICODE
{"unichr", builtin_unichr, METH_VARARGS, unichr_doc},