[Python-ideas] suggestion about the sort() function of the list instance

[Ryan Birmingham]

It sorts the list in place. Can you use sorted(item_list)?

-Ryan Birmingham

On 26 February 2017 at 22:07, qhlonline <qhlonline at 163.com> wrote:

> Hi, all
>     I have a suggestion that, the sort() member method of the list
> instance, should return the 'self' as  the result of list.sort() call.
>     Now list.sort() returns nothing, so that I can NOT write code like
> this:
>
>     res =  {item: func(item) for item in item_list.sort()}
>
>     It feels bad.
>
> Regards!
>
>
>
>
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