Newbie Questions: Swithing from Perl to Python

[Mel Wilson]

In article <2rRmb.49323$e5.1791566 at news1.tin.it>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>The list.sorted classmethod is more powerful than an instance method
>of lists would be: it will let you build a sorted list out of any iterable
>at all, AND support smoothly and transparently _subclasses_ of list.

.. any finite iterable :>