Python: list.sort() query when list contains different element types

Question

Greetings Pythonic world. Day 4 of learning Python 3.3 and I\'ve come across a strange property of list.sort.

I created a list of five elements: four st

Answer 1

This nothing uncommon. Simply sort() do not check whether list contains consistent datatypes, instead it tries to sort. So once your element is at the end, it gets analyzed lately, and so algorithm did sorted part of the list before it found an error.

And no - it is not useful, as it heavily depends on the implemented sort mechanism.