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</li><li><font color="black">Make copies to avoid aliasing.<br />
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If you want to use a method like <tt>sort</tt> that modifies
the argument, but you need to keep the original list as
well, you can make a copy.
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orig = t[:]
t.sort()
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<font color="black">In this example you could also use the built-in function <tt>sorted</tt>,
which returns a new, sorted list and leaves the ori