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		aldanor on Oct 11, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python wats sorted is always a list, whereas reversed is an iterator (at least in Python 3)

masklinn on Oct 11, 2015 [–]

Same in Python 2. A collection can even override "reversed" to provide their own reversed collection/iterator[0], not so for `sorted`.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html?highlight...

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