On 04/05/14 11:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
For the specific case of sort you can always use
the sorted() function which does return a reference
(not a copy!) to the sorted item.
sorted() does make a copy of the list:
Really? That's a bummer.
I assumed (never assume!) that it returned a reference to the original.
I really, really, hate the way Python handles this :-(
Perhaps you meant that it didn't copy the individual items inside the
list?
Nah, I just got it wrong!
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Alan G
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