It would be useful if list.sort() accepted two more optional parameters, start and stop, so that you can sort a slice in place. In other words,
x = range(1000000) x.sort(start=3, stop=-1) would be equivalent to x[3:-1] = sorted(x[3:-1]) but more efficient and without repeating the slice twice. If it's not too late for feature additions, I'd love to see this in 2.5. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
