On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:40:46 +0100, MRAB wrote: > On 21/07/2012 20:08, Lipska the Kat wrote: >> l=sorted(l, key=itemgetter(0)) > > Short is: > > l.sort(key=itemgetter(0))
Shorter, and the semantics are subtly different. The sorted function returns a copy of the input list. The list.sort method sorts the list in place. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list