it generated a new object, did not change the original. hint: notice the output 
is a list, not a tuple!

On August 2, 2017 1:01:31 PM MDT, C W <tmrs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear list,
>
>I am a little confused about why Tuple can be sorted.
>
>Suppose I have the following,
>
>> aTuple = (9, 3, 7, 5)
>> sorted(aTuple)
>[3, 5, 7, 9]
>
>Why is it ok to sort a the class tuple? If it is invariant by nature,
>then
>wouldn't applying a function on it yield an error?
>
>Thanks!
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