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Tue Oct 28 20:42:47 EST 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/039762.html

Hi,

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Okay, this is the last chance to come-up with a name other than
> sorted().
> 
> Here are some alternatives:
> 
>   inlinesort()   # immediately clear how it is different from sort()
>   sortedcopy()   # clear that it makes a copy and does a sort
>   newsorted()    # appropriate for a class method constructor
> 
> 
> I especially like the last one and all of them provide a distinction
> from list.sort().
> 

How about adding a builtin function sort() which returns the sorted
version of the input list?

		L.sort() # sort in-place
		sort(L)  # return sorted copy

Regards,
Chih-Chung Chang

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