I may be doing something wrong, or is this a bug in 2.1? x = (9,5,4,3,1,2) print x.sort() -> (1,2,3,4,5,9) print x.sort(lamda x,y: x<y) -> (9,5,4,3,1,2) !! I'm using the 2.1 released source, built on Redhat 6.2... - Tushar.