sorted() erraticly fails to sort string numbers

[Paddy O'Loughlin]

2009/4/30 Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at gmail.com>

>   container[:] = sorted(container, key=getkey)
>>
>> .... is equivalent to:
>>
>>   container.sort(key=getkey)
>>
>>
> Equivalent, and in fact better since the sorting is done in-place instead
> of creating a new list, then overwriting the old one.


Not when, as pointed out by uuid, container is not list-like (at least as
far as the sort() method goes).
:)

Paddy

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