about sort and dictionary

[bonono at gmail.com]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> bonono at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > so what would an entry-level Python programmer expect from this
> > piece of code?
> >
> > for item in a.reverse():
> > print item
> > for item in a.reverse():
> > print item
> >
> > I would expect it to first print a in reverse then a as it was.
> >
> > a=[1,2,3]
> >
> > I expect it to print
> >
> > 3
> > 2
> > 1
> > 1
> > 2
> > 3
> >
> really?  wouldn't
>
>     3
>     2
>     1
>     3
>     2
>     1
>
> make a lot more sense ?
Still don't see why even you ask it again. May be you can enlight me a
bit. If this is Haskell, I would expect the result you posted.