On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 5:18 PM Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > > Jonathan Fine writes: > > > tmp = list(sorted(d.items())) > > The list() call is redundant. sorted() always returns a new list.
Correct. > Ditto, reversed(). The method versions are in-place. Not correct - reversed() is a parallel to iter() and returns a reversed iterator. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/3MSF73MMLBWMRDXATAZJB46CZZELS5X5/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/