Sibylle Koczian wrote: > Hello, > > I thought I understood list slices, but I don't. I want to sort only the > last part of a list, preferably in place. If I do > > >>> ll = [3, 1, 4, 2] > >>> ll[2:].sort()
It may help in unravelling any bogglement to point out that this is equivalent to temp = ll[2:]; temp.sort(); del temp > >>> ll > [3, 1, 4, 2] > > ll isn't changed, because ll[2:] is a copy of the last part of the list, > and this copy is sorted, not the original list. Right so far? Quite correct. > > But assignment to the slice: > > >>> ll[2:] = [2, 4] > >>> ll > [3, 1, 2, 4] > > _does_ change my original ll. Quite correct. > > What did I misunderstand? What misunderstanding? You have described the behaviour rather precisely. Which of the two cases is boggling you? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
