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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: test for list equality
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:57:02 +0000 (UTC)
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In <61edc02c-4f86-45ef-82a1-61c7013003b4@t38g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> noydb <jenn.duerr@gmail.com> writes:

> My sort issue... as in this doesn't work
> >>> if x.sort =3D=3D y.sort:
> ... 	print 'equal'
> ... else:
> ... 	print 'not equal'
> ...
> not equal

> ???

Use x.sort() instead of x.sort .

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