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Guido grants a Christmas wish:  
  sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.



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  \end{verbatim}
  
+ To loop over a sequence in sorted order, use the \function{sorted()}
+ function which returns a new sorted list while leaving the source
+ unaltered.
+ 
+ \begin{verbatim}
+ >>> basket = ['apple', 'orange', 'apple', 'pear', 'orange', 'banana']
+ >>> for f in sorted(set(basket)):
+ ...     print f
+ ... 	
+ apple
+ banana
+ orange
+ pear
+ \end{verbatim}
  
  \section{More on Conditions \label{conditions}}