about sort and dictionary

[George Sakkis]

"Shi Mu" wrote:

> Got confused by the following code:
> >>> a
[6, 3, 1]
> >>> b
[4, 3, 1]
> >>> c

> {1: [[6, 3, 1], [4, 3, 1]], 2: [[6, 3, 1]]}
> >>> c[2].append(b.sort())
> >>> c

> {1: [[6, 3, 1], [1, 3, 4]], 2: [[6, 3, 1], None]}
> #why c can not append the sorted b??


In python 2.4, you can use the sorted() builtin instead:

c[2].append(sorted(b))

George