[Python-Dev] Re: inline sort option
David Eppstein
eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Thu Oct 16 14:25:13 EDT 2003
In article <004f01c3940d$ea1c1320$e841fea9 at oemcomputer>,
"Raymond Hettinger" <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> Are you proposing something like:
>
> print mylist.sort(inplace=False) # prints a new, sorted list while
> # leaving the original list intact
What's wrong with writing your own three-line function
def sort(L):
copy = list(L)
copy.sort()
return copy
then you can do print sort(mylist) etc to your heart's content...
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David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science
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