very good reasons?

[Greg Ewing]

Pete Shinners wrote:
> 
> b = a.sort() or a.reverse() or a

Yeeek! That must be the most misleading piece of
Python I've ever seen! It sounds like you're
either sorting or reversing or doing nothing,
when you're actually doing all three.

If you really want an obfuscated way of writing
it, how about

b = (a.sort(), a.reverse(), a)[-1]

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