Grant Griffin g2 at seebelow.org
Fri Sep 29 18:17:20 EDT 2000

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In article <wkaecrf2ef.fsf at turangalila.harmonixmusic.com>, Dan says...
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>Grant Griffin <g2 at seebelow.org> writes:
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>| I would have expected sort and reverse to return the list in
>| question, but instead they return None.
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>sort and reverse return None so you don't get fooled into thinking
>that they don't modify the list you passed in as an argument.
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>If you could write
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>  sorted_arr = arr.sort()
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>then people might get surprised that arr changed.

Well, I had thought of that, but it didn't really seem compelling to me: I can't
find anything in Tim's "Python Philosophy"* that it specifically violates.

(unlike-some-of-2.0's-new-features-<wink>)-ly y'rs,

=g2
*see http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=651573602&fmt=text

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