This will sort the contents of the list using Python’s default sorting methods. For strings, the default is lexical order; for numbers, it’s ascending values. If you want to sort a list in ...

As an FYI, nosferatu-man's and my solutions are better than S. Carton's, but require Python 2.4. The "key" parameter to sort/sorted does a "Decorate-Sort-Undecorate"[1] automatically, whereas the ...