I am trying to perform in-place modification of a list of list on the level of the primary list. However, when I try to modify the iterating variable (row in the example below), it appears to create a new pointer to it rather than modifying it. Smallest example of my problem. The above example is a trivial ex…
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What is the difference between `sorted(list)` vs `list.sort()`?
list.sort() sorts the list and replaces the original list, whereas sorted(list) returns a sorted copy of the list, without changing the original list. When is one preferred over the other? Which is more efficient? By how much? Can a list be reverted to the unsorted state after list.sort() has been performed? …