Re: Python 3 sort() problem

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Date	2015-08-17 17:14 +0300
Subject	Re: Python 3 sort() problem
From	Joonas Liik <liik.joonas@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.59.1439820893.4764.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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> I know that sort() returns None, but I guess that it would be returned x
> that was sorted. Why so?

if it returned a sorted list it might lead some people to believe it
did not modify the oridinal list which would lead to a ton of
confusion for new users.

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Re: Python 3 sort() problem Joonas Liik <liik.joonas@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 17:14 +0300

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