sort function

[Paul Maxwell]

Hi all i am very new to Python and juypter notebook. i am trying to use the sort function  with a list of names, however when i use (names.sort()

and then i print names i just get the same result the names have not been sorted?

i must be doing something wrong but ii thnk i need help? 

[Jason Moore]

Paul,

You may want to read this:

https://docs.python.org/3/howto/sorting.html

sorted() and .sort() have different behaviors, maybe you are looking for a particular case. .sort() will modify in place and printing that variable after the method call should show a sorted list.

Jason

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