Question

I want to do something like

list = [6,4,1,10,8].sort().reverse()

or

zip([x**2 for x in xrange(5)], [x**3 for x in xrange(5)].reverse()])

but this doesn’t work because methods on list doesn’t return the original object, so they’re not chainable.

Do I have to do this using multiple lines or is there some cool functional programming magic I can do in python to achieve this in one line?

Answer 1

You want sorted() and reversed().