On Mar 20, 8:34 am, Paul McGuire <pt...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > On Mar 20, 9:54 am, "thomasvang...@gmail.com" > > <thomasvang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You could use: > > B=list(set(A)).sort() > > Hope that helps. > > T > > That may hurt more than help, sort() only works in-place, and does > *not* return the sorted list. For that you want the global built-in > sorted:
Okay,if sort() only works in-place, then how come the following seems to return a sorted list >>> f = [9,7,6,8] >>> g=f >>> g [9, 7, 6, 8] >>> g.sort() >>> g [6, 7, 8, 9] >>> f [6, 7, 8, 9] >>> Ie, when I sort g, f also seems to get sorted. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list