Looking for a different version of sort

[Dan Bishop]

"Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)" <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.31.1087353172.21521.python-list at python.org>...
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> There is no function available which sorts in-place and returns a
> reference to the list sorted, but it's very simple to write a function
> to do it ...
> 
> def inplace sort (l):
>     l.sort()
>     return l

Or, alternatively:

sort = lambda l: (l.sort(), l)[1]