sort a list of files
Ryan Forsythe
ryanf at cs.uoregon.edu
Sat May 6 16:31:37 EDT 2006
Gary Wessle wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to print out the contents of a directory, sorted.
...
> if I remove ".sort()" at the end of line 6 I get an unsorted list of
> files, if I leave it I get None. who do I fix this?
`blah.sort()` sorts in-place and returns None. You probably want
sorted(blah):
>>> a = [3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9]
>>> sorted(a)
[1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 9]
>>> a
[3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9]
>>> a.sort()
>>> a
[1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 9]
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Ryan Forsythe
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