On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:37:30 +0100, Christophe Delord <christophe.delord at free.fr> wrote: >The problem with sort is that it sorts the list as a side effect. Well, if that is the whole problem: sort = lambda x:(lambda x=x[:]:(x.sort(),x)[1])() But your lambdas are very nice, too...