the method "sort()"

Question

What is the function of sort() ?

Answer 1

The difference of sort() and sorted() in short words:

sort() - using sort() will change (sort) the passed list to the function inline, that means that the original list will be sorted. sort() only works for lists.
sorted() - using sorted() will take any iterable (list, tuple, string, dict), not only list, and will return a new sorted iterable. The initial iterable keeps unchanged.

Answer 2

If you have a list it helps to sort the list.

Simple example would be

list_1=[2,7,9,4,6,1]
list_1.sort()
print(list_1)

Output will be [1,2,4,6,7,9]..