Sorting Python list based on the length of the string
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I want to sort a list of strings based on the string length. I tried to use sort as follows, but it doesn't seem to give me correct result.
xs = ['dddd','a','bb','ccc']
print xs
xs.sort(lambda x,y: len(x) < len(y))
print xs
['dddd', 'a', 'bb', 'ccc']
['dddd', 'a', 'bb', 'ccc']
What might be wrong?
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