Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: Bill,
list.reverse doesn't do any *sorting* at all; it merely *reverses* the list contents. >>> x = [1, 3, 4, 2] >>> x.reverse() >>> x [2, 4, 3, 1] If you want to do a reverse sort, you can either first sort normally and then reverse the result, or (easier) use the 'reverse' keyword argument to the list.sort method, as follows: >>> x = [1, 3, 4, 2] >>> x.sort(reverse=True) >>> x [4, 3, 2, 1] I suspect Eric meant to write "does not reverse sort" instead of "does not reverse". ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14542> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
