copysort patch, was RE: [Python-Dev] inline sort option

Tue Oct 28 20:42:47 EST 2003

Hi,
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Okay, this is the last chance to come-up with a name other than
> sorted().
>> Here are some alternatives:
>> inlinesort() # immediately clear how it is different from sort()
> sortedcopy() # clear that it makes a copy and does a sort
> newsorted() # appropriate for a class method constructor
>>> I especially like the last one and all of them provide a distinction
> from list.sort().
>
How about adding a builtin function sort() which returns the sorted
version of the input list?
		L.sort() # sort in-place
		sort(L) # return sorted copy
Regards,
Chih-Chung Chang