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  Re: What behavior would you expect? Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> - 2015-02-19 22:51 -0700
    Re: What behavior would you expect? Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2015-02-20 05:58 +0000

#85950 — Re: What behavior would you expect?

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> 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?


> If you're going to call listdir, you probably want to use fnmatch directly.
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Got it.

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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:51:57 -0700, Jason Friedman wrote:

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>> 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?

my_list.  In the end, it'll look something like this:

def f():
    my_list = some_other_function_that_returns_an_unsorted_list()
    my_list.sort()
    return my_list

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