On Mar 20, 5:08 pm, grocery_stocker <cdal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
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