[issue14542] reverse() doesn't reverse sort correctly

[Bill Jefferson]

Bill Jefferson <shaggers3 at yahoo.com> added the comment:

Mark and Eric......
Wonderful! I got it now.  I used x.sort(reverse=True) and  x.sort(reverse=False) and it works just fine. Thanks for your help.
Bill......

 
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 From: Mark Dickinson <report at bugs.python.org>
To: shaggers3 at yahoo.com 
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:28 AM
Subject: [issue14542] reverse() doesn't reverse sort correctly

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

Bill,

list.reverse doesn't do any *sorting* at all;  it merely *reverses* the list contents.

[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:

[4, 3, 2, 1]

I suspect Eric meant to write "does not reverse sort" instead of "does not reverse".

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