diff --git a/src/Channel.py b/src/Channel.py
index e86953a29..5f9351dd2 100755
--- a/src/Channel.py
+++ b/src/Channel.py
@@ -435,8 +435,7 @@ class Channel(callbacks.Privmsg):
             s = 'I\'m not currently ignoring any hostmasks in %r' % channel
             irc.reply(s)
         else:
-            L = c.ignores[:]
-            L.sort()
+            L = sorted(c.ignores)
             irc.reply(utils.commaAndify(imap(repr, L)))
     ignores = privmsgs.checkChannelCapability(ignores, 'op')
 
@@ -542,8 +541,7 @@ class Channel(callbacks.Privmsg):
         """
         channel = privmsgs.getChannel(msg, args)
         c = ircdb.channels.getChannel(channel)
-        L = list(c.capabilities)
-        L.sort()
+        L = sorted(c.capabilities)
         irc.reply('[%s]' % '; '.join(L))
 
     def lobotomies(self, irc, msg, args):
diff --git a/src/fix.py b/src/fix.py
index 3066fdcc7..409bb2ddb 100644
--- a/src/fix.py
+++ b/src/fix.py
@@ -168,14 +168,6 @@ def rsplit(s, sep=None, maxsplit=-1):
     L.reverse()
     return [s[::-1] for s in L]
 
-def sorted(iterable, cmp=None, key=None, reverse=False):
-    L = list(iterable)
-##     if key is None:
-##         L.sort(cmp)
-##     else:
-##         # Oops, we don't have sortBy.  Let's come back to this.utils.
-##     utils.sortBy(key
-
 import operator
 def itemgetter(i):
     return lambda x: x[i]