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Author mjpieters
Recipients docs@python, mjpieters, rhettinger, steven.daprano, tim.peters
Date 2019-01-04.10:38:44
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Well, if this is indeed by design (and I missed the list.sort() reference) then I agree the HOWTO should not be changed!

I'd be happy to change this to asking for more explicit mentions in the docs for sorted, heapq and bisect that using only < (__lt__) is a deliberate choice.
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