>I think I understand this sorting-a-list 'in place' stuff, and things > of that kind (reversing for example); but I am finding it very > difficult to get used to, since sorting a list doesn't return the > sorted list as a value, but simply does the work as a side effect.
If its any consolation I personally think this ois one of the worst aspects of Python. Most of its features I either like or can tolerate but this one just seems insane to me. > Third question: is this in-place behavior of methods in effect > restricted to lists, or are there other places I should be on the > lookout for it? The other place where a None return seems unintuitive is in Tkinter. The layout manager methods(pack, grid etc) all return None when most folks intuitively expect them to return the widget. But I think the reason for that is that the underlying Tk code does the same. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
