You can assign to a slice in place, but referencing a slice creates a copy.
I think you understand it quite well :-) a = ll[2:] a.sort() ll[2:] = a To do a partial sort, in place, you'll have to subclass list - but you'll still end up doing something similar unless you delve into C or write your own sort algorithm in Python. Neither are recommended. Best Regards, Fuzzy http://wwww.voidspace.org.uk/python (back online hurrah) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
