A recursive function to sort a list of ints

I want to define a recursive function can sort any list of ints:

def sort_l(l):
    if l==[]:
        return []
    else:
        if len(l)==1:
            return [l[-1]]
        elif l[0]<l[1]:
            return [l[0]]+sort_l(l[1:])
        else:
            return sort_l(l[1:])+[l[0]]

Calling this function on a list [3, 1, 2,4,7,5,6,9,8] should give me:

[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]

But I get:

print(sort_l([3, 1, 2,4,7,5,6,9,8]))--> [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 7, 3]

Please help me to fix the problem, actual code would be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer

The quick sort is recursive and easy to implement in Python:

def quick_sort(l):
    if len(l) <= 1:
        return l
    else:
        return quick_sort([e for e in l[1:] if e <= l[0]]) + [l[0]] +
            quick_sort([e for e in l[1:] if e > l[0]])

will give:

>>> quick_sort([3, 1, 2, 4, 7, 5, 6, 9, 8])
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]