Paul Rubin <phr-n2002a at nightsong.com> wrote in news:7xofijct0y.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com: > Hans Nowak <wurmy at earthlink.net> writes: > def sort2(lst): > return sort3(lst[:]) IANAFP, but... sort2c = lambda X : (lambda r : (not r.sort()) and r)((lambda c : c[:])(X))