How can you use the sorted() function to print a list in reverse alphabetical order? (Python)

Question

I'm a true newbie in Python. Using a learning book I've got this exercise among others. I do know how to do that with method, but not with a function sorted([, , , ] ).
I've tried different approaches to try to understand but i didn't.

So in the most simple words. How do you do it?

Thanks you

Answer 1

Try this,

sorted('abcdef',reverse=True)

Answer 2

If I want to sort the whole list

wow=['usa', 'australia', 'brazil', 'ireland']
print(sorted(wow))
print(sorted(wow, reverse=True))

Hope you got it.

Answer 3

I come across a similar exercise in the book Python Crash Course A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming .

If you want to reverse the letters in a string, you could try this, just put the string inside the parentheses.

print(sorted("happyday",reverse=True)) .

outcome: ['y', 'y', 'p', 'p', 'h', 'd', 'a', 'a']

If you want to reverse the elements in a list, you could try this:

    want_to_visit=["Berlin","Thailand","London","Greek","Agentina"]
    print(sorted(want_to_visit,reverse=True))

outcome: ['Thailand', 'London', 'Greek', 'Berlin', 'Agentina']

Answer 4

This worked for me:

cities = ["London", "Paris", "Rome", "Los Angeles", "New York"]    
cities.sort(reverse=True)    
print(cities)

Answer 5

This is hilarious. I was just doing the same exercise and having the same problem. It is from the "PYTHON CRASH COURSE" chapter 3.8 to be exact.

cities = ["London", "Paris", "Rome", "Los Angeles", "New York"]
cities.sort(reverse=True)
print(cities)

works to permanently sort the list into reverse alphabetical order whereas

print (sorted(cities,reverse=True))

gives you a temporary reverse alphabetical sort of the list