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By the way for some reason, the google class says that the functions sorted()
is better than the method list.sort().
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>" list.sort() -- sorts the list in place (does not return it). (The sorted()
>function shown below is preferred.) "
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>http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/lists.html
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>Somebody knows why?
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>No idea to be honest but it could be because in pure computer science theory
functions that return a value (ie sorted) are considered better than functions
that change things as a side effect (ie sort).
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn To Program website
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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