Re: What behavior would you expect?

Date	2015-02-20 08:07 -0500
From	Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject	Re: What behavior would you expect?
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On 02/20/2015 12:51 AM, Jason Friedman wrote:
>>
>> I'd still advise using my_list.sort() rather than sorted(), as you
>> don't need to retain the original.
>>
>>
> Hmm.
>
> Trying to figure out what that looks like.
> If I understand correctly, list.sort() returns None.
> What would I return to the caller?
>

     return_list = ....
     return_list.sort(key=..., reverse = True)
     return return_list

>
> Oops, guess I'm not really returning a list, I'm returning an iterator.

Now you'll be returning a list, I believe.


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DaveA

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