[Python] A recursive function to sort a list of ints

I want to define a recursive function can sort any list of ints:

def sort_l(l):
if l==[]:
return []
else:
if len(l)==1:
return [l[-1]]
elif l[0]<l[1]:
return [l[0]]+sort_l(l[1:])
else:
return sort_l(l[1:])+[l[0]]


Calling this function on a list [3, 1, 2,4,7,5,6,9,8] should give me:

[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]


But I get:

print(sort_l([3, 1, 2,4,7,5,6,9,8]))--> [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 7, 3]


Please help me to fix the problem, actual code would be appreciated. Thanks!

Continue reading...