In this article, you’ll see how to sort a list in Python. The sort method is used to sort the elements in ascending or descending order. I highly recommend you get the “Python Crash Course Book” to learn Python.
Sort the list in ascending order
If you want to sort a list in increasing order then don’t specify any argument in the sort method.
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a = [55, 10, 40, 20, 35]a.sort()print(a)Output:
[10, 20, 35, 40, 55]
Sort in descending order
If you want to sort a list in decreasing order then specify the (reverse=True) argument in the sort method.
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a = [55, 10, 40, 20, 35]a.sort(reverse=True)print(a)Output:
[55, 40, 35, 20, 10]
