Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > Phillip B Oldham <phillip.old...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 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. > > If you just want a one-liner, and you don't care about speed you can > do the following (but I don't think this is considered best practice)
sorted() already returns a new list not a generator as you might assume. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
