Hi, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

Okay, this is the last chance to come-up with a name other than sorted().

Here are some alternatives:

inlinesort() # immediately clear how it is different from sort() sortedcopy() # clear that it makes a copy and does a sort newsorted() # appropriate for a class method constructor

I especially like the last one and all of them provide a distinction from list.sort().

How about adding a builtin function sort() which returns the sorted version of the input list? L.sort() # sort in-place sort(L) # return sorted copy Regards, Chih-Chung Chang