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Shae Erisson shapr at uab.edu
Fri Jun 2 14:22:43 EDT 2000 
Aaron Ginn wrote:
> 
> I'm a python newbie, so please be kind! :)
> 
> I'm trying to sort a list.  Fairly simple, but I'm not getting
> at all what I expect.  When I attempt to sort the list, the
> return value is None, and I can't understand why at all.
<snip>
> Why is sort returning an empty list?

because in this case, sort is expected to have the side effect of
sorting the list, rather than returning a sorted list.

>>> a = [3,2,1]
>>> a.sort()
>>> a
[1, 2, 3]
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