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Subject: Re: what's the effect of cmp here?
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On 10/07/2012 16:01, levi nie wrote:
> aList=[3,2,5,4]
>
> bList=aList[:]
> bList.sort()
> print "bList is",bList
>
> cList=aList[:]
> cList.sort(cmp)
> print "cList is",cList
>

Why don't you tell us, you have the same documentatation avaialable as 
everybody else.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.