On Aug 28, 7:43 pm, hwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've searched the group and didn't see the answer to this... > > Why doesn't this work?: > > >>> letters = ['d', 'a', 'e', 'c', 'b'] > >>> letters[1:3].sort() > > This returns None. > > Why? letters[1:3] is ['a', 'e', 'c'] Sorting that should return > ['a', 'c', 'e'] > > hwg
sort() works on a list in place, and returns none You have to make a temp list. note... >>> letters = ['d', 'a', 'e', 'c', 'b'] >>> print letters.sort() None >>> print letters ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'] ~Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
