On 22/07/2012 01:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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.

Since the result is bound to the original name, the
result is the same.

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