Help understanding the decisions *behind* python?

[Paul Moore]

2009/7/20 Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com>:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Piet van Oostrum<piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>>>>>>> x = [2,1,3]
>>>>>>> print sorted(x)[0]
>>>DB> 3
>>
>> What kind of Python produces that?
>
> Assuming you're referring to the latter example, it was added in version 2.4
> If you meant the former example, I think that's purely pseudo-Python.

I think he was referring to the fact that the result should be 1, not 3.

Paul.