Alex Martelli wrote: ...
Sorting plays with mutability by working in-place, but for many uses it would be just as good if sorting returned a sorted copy instead -- the key thing here is the sorting, not the mutability.
And the key assumption for sorting things is that the things are sortable, which means there exists and order on the basic set. Which again suggests that list elements usually have something in common. ciao - chris p.s.: I'm not using a shopping tuple, since I sort my list be the stores I have to visit. :-) -- Christian Tismer :^) mailto:tismer@tismer.com Mission Impossible 5oftware : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9a : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 89 09 53 34 home +49 30 802 86 56 pager +49 173 24 18 776 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/