Why list.sort() don't return the list reference instead of None?

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Mon May 8 02:39:18 EDT 2006

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L = [4,3,2,1]
L=L.sort()
L will refer to None, why L.sort() don't return the L?
I want to ask why the designer of Python do so?

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