>>> that's trivial to do with slicing, of course. what makes you think you >>> need to do this by calling the "sort" method ? >>> >>> </F> >> You are of course correct.. There might be a way to do this with >> slicing >> and i % 3 > > Slicing will work only with a sorted list.
But modulus arithmetic will only work with contiguous, non-repeating numeric sequences...Funky things happen with sequences like [1,2,3,4,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] # "4" appears twice or [1,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29] where the position and the numeric value no longer correlate via a simple modulus. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
