New submission from Bill Jefferson <shagge...@yahoo.com>:

reverse() doesn't reverse sort correctly in Python 25 and 27. sort() works 
correctly, but reverse doesn't. The following uses reverse(). Incorrect. Even 
though the date comes first, reverse() sorts on the file name, 
"B57IBMCD_T.....zip"

2012-04-05 B57IBMCD_T7.2.3.1.zip
2012-03-23 B57IBMCD_T7.2.2.3.zip
2012-02-22 B57IBMCD_T7.2.2.2.zip
2012-02-13 B57IBMCD_T7.2.2.1.zip
2012-01-23 B57IBMCD_T7.2.1.1.zip
2012-03-28 B57IBMCD_T7.0.4.6.zip
2012-03-08 B57IBMCD_T7.0.4.5.zip
2012-03-03 B57IBMCD_T7.0.4.4.zip
2012-02-29 B57IBMCD_T7.0.4.3.zip
2012-01-06 B57IBMCD_T7.0.4.2.zip
2011-12-08 B57IBMCD_T7.0.4.1.zip
2012-01-06 B57IBMCD_T7.0.3.1.zip
2012-01-06 B57IBMCD_T7.0.2.2.zip
2012-01-06 B57IBMCD_T7.0.2.1.zip
2012-01-06 B57IBMCD_T6.2.4.9.zip
2011-12-07 B57IBMCD_T6.2.4.9-r1.zip
2011-09-13 B57IBMCD_T6.2.4.8.zip
2012-03-28 B57IBMCD_T6.2.4.12.zip
2012-02-15 B57IBMCD_T6.2.4.11.zip
2011-12-06 B57IBMCD_T6.2.4.10.zip

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components: Demos and Tools, IDLE, Windows
files: EX38.PY
messages: 157988
nosy: billje
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: reverse() doesn't reverse sort correctly
type: performance
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25172/EX38.PY

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