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

[Greg Ewing]

Stéfane Fermigier wrote:
> Cf. https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CommandQuerySeparation.html

Python's convention is less extreme than this, since it only applies
to methods that, under the conventions of some other languages, would
return self to facilitate chaining. There's no rule against a mutating
method returning some other value if that's convenient.

-- 
Greg