The Python Game Book

Sorting elements, usually inside a list.

see:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm
• https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=sort#list.sort
• https://www.toptal.com/developers/sorting-algorithms

Python has an in-built sorting function:

>>> mylist = [1,5,6,8,99,3,2,5,7,77,8,88,0,33]
>>> mylist.sort()
>>> mylist
[0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 33, 77, 88, 99]

You can also sort reverse the elements in a list or sort in reverse order:

>>> mylist = [1,5,6,8,99,3,2,5,7,77,8,88,0,33]
>>> mylist.reverse()
>>> mylist
[33, 0, 88, 8, 77, 7, 5, 2, 3, 99, 8, 6, 5, 1]
>>> mylist.sort(reverse=True)
>>> mylist
[99, 88, 77, 33, 8, 8, 7, 6, 5, 5, 3, 2, 1, 0]
>>>