On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Phillip B Oldham<phillip.old...@gmail.com> wrote: > <snip> > We often find we need to do manipulations like the above without > changing the order of the original list, and languages like JS allow > this. We can't work out how to do this in python though, other than > duplicating the list, sorting, reversing, then discarding. >
I have no idea about why the design decisions were made. You might take a look at the sorted() function: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#sorted It will do what you want. \t -- http://tycho.ws -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
