"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh, same difference. I thought it was a method because I'm not using > > 2.4 yet. The result is the same > > nope. sorted works on any kind of sequence, including forward-only > iterators. sorted(open(filename)) works just fine, for example.
Oh cool. However I meant the result is the same in my example, where assigning the temporary result to a variable stopped memory from getting reclaimed until after the function exits. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list