On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Piet van Oostrum<p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: >>>>>> Duncan Booth <duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid> (DB) wrote: > >>DB> Phillip B Oldham <phillip.old...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> This make a lot more sense to us, and follows the convention from >>>> other languages. It would also mean chaining methods to manipulate >>>> lists would be easier: >>>> >>>>>>> x = [2,1,3] >>>>>>> print x.sort()[0] >>>> 3 >>>>>>> print x >>>> [2,1,3] > >>DB> You already have a way to do what you want: > >>>>>> x = [2,1,3] >>>>>> print sorted(x)[0] >>DB> 3 > > What kind of Python produces that?
Assuming you're referring to the latter example, it was added in version 2.4 If you meant the former example, I think that's purely pseudo-Python. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
