What arguments does Python sort() function have?

Question

Is there any other argument than key, for example: value?

Answer 1

Besides key=, the sort method of lists in Python 2.x could alternatively take a cmp= argument (not a good idea, it's been removed in Python 3); with either or none of these two, you can always pass reverse=True to have the sort go downwards (instead of upwards as is the default, and which you can also request explicitly with reverse=False if you're really keen to do that for some reason). I have no idea what that value argument you're mentioning is supposed to do.