How can I sort a specific range of elements in a list?

Question

Suppose I have a list,

lst = [5, 3, 5, 1, 4, 7]

and I want to get it ordered from the second element 3 to the end.

I thought I could do it by:

lst[1:].sort()

But, this doesn't work.

How can I do it?

Solution 1

lst = lst[0:1] + sorted(lst[1:])

Solution 2

lst = [5, 3, 5, 1, 4, 7]
lst[1:] = sorted(lst[1:])
print(lst) # prints [5, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7]

Solution 3

so = lambda x, index: x[:index]+sorted(x[index:])

so call it as so(lst, 1)

In [2]: x = [5, 3, 5, 1, 4, 7]
In [3]: so(lst, 1)
Out[4]: [5, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7]