Sort a part of a list in place

Question

Let\'s say we have a list:

a = [4, 8, 1, 7, 3, 0, 5, 2, 6, 9]

Now, a.sort() will sort the list in place. What if we want to sort only a

Answer 1

if a is a numpy array then to sort [i, j) range in-place, type:

a[i:j].sort()

Example:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> a = np.array([4, 8, 1, 7, 3, 0, 5, 2, 6, 9])
>>> a[1:4].sort()
>>> a
array([4, 1, 7, 8, 3, 0, 5, 2, 6, 9])