domi@scaleo:~$ python Python 2.4.3 (#2, Apr 27 2006, 14:43:58) [GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a=['d','c','b','a'] >>> b=a >>> b.sort() >>> print a ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'] >>> if a == b: ... print '[:uxam]' ... [:uxam]