diff --git a/gallery/others/plot_repurposing_annotations.py b/gallery/others/plot_repurposing_annotations.py
index 2c2e10ffb2a..060991ba8d7 100644
--- a/gallery/others/plot_repurposing_annotations.py
+++ b/gallery/others/plot_repurposing_annotations.py
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ def __init__(self, root, transforms):
         self.transforms = transforms
         # load all image files, sorting them to
         # ensure that they are aligned
-        self.imgs = list(sorted(os.listdir(os.path.join(root, "PNGImages"))))
-        self.masks = list(sorted(os.listdir(os.path.join(root, "PedMasks"))))
+        self.imgs = sorted(os.listdir(os.path.join(root, "PNGImages")))
+        self.masks = sorted(os.listdir(os.path.join(root, "PedMasks")))
 
     def __getitem__(self, idx):
         # load images and masks
diff --git a/torchvision/datasets/_stereo_matching.py b/torchvision/datasets/_stereo_matching.py
index bc2236e97b8..afb48b152fb 100644
--- a/torchvision/datasets/_stereo_matching.py
+++ b/torchvision/datasets/_stereo_matching.py
@@ -67,13 +67,13 @@ def _scan_pairs(
         paths_right_pattern: Optional[str] = None,
     ) -> list[tuple[str, Optional[str]]]:
 
-        left_paths = list(sorted(glob(paths_left_pattern)))
+        left_paths = sorted(glob(paths_left_pattern))
 
         right_paths: list[Union[None, str]]
         if paths_right_pattern:
-            right_paths = list(sorted(glob(paths_right_pattern)))
+            right_paths = sorted(glob(paths_right_pattern))
         else:
-            right_paths = list(None for _ in left_paths)
+            right_paths = [None for _ in left_paths]
 
         if not left_paths:
             raise FileNotFoundError(f"Could not find any files matching the patterns: {paths_left_pattern}")
diff --git a/torchvision/datasets/coco.py b/torchvision/datasets/coco.py
index 8f3b5d2dfe4..dd23eb3a000 100644
--- a/torchvision/datasets/coco.py
+++ b/torchvision/datasets/coco.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def __init__(
         from pycocotools.coco import COCO
 
         self.coco = COCO(annFile)
-        self.ids = list(sorted(self.coco.imgs.keys()))
+        self.ids = sorted(self.coco.imgs.keys())
 
     def _load_image(self, id: int) -> Image.Image:
         path = self.coco.loadImgs(id)[0]["file_name"]
diff --git a/torchvision/datasets/flickr.py b/torchvision/datasets/flickr.py
index 84f1dc0e170..a7e4661d8e6 100644
--- a/torchvision/datasets/flickr.py
+++ b/torchvision/datasets/flickr.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ def __init__(
             parser.feed(fh.read())
         self.annotations = parser.annotations
 
-        self.ids = list(sorted(self.annotations.keys()))
+        self.ids = sorted(self.annotations.keys())
         self.loader = loader
 
     def __getitem__(self, index: int) -> tuple[Any, Any]:
diff --git a/torchvision/datasets/mnist.py b/torchvision/datasets/mnist.py
index 08df550c8d6..8974a050962 100644
--- a/torchvision/datasets/mnist.py
+++ b/torchvision/datasets/mnist.py
@@ -284,9 +284,9 @@ class EMNIST(MNIST):
     _merged_classes = {"c", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "o", "p", "s", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"}
     _all_classes = set(string.digits + string.ascii_letters)
     classes_split_dict = {
-        "byclass": sorted(list(_all_classes)),
-        "bymerge": sorted(list(_all_classes - _merged_classes)),
-        "balanced": sorted(list(_all_classes - _merged_classes)),
+        "byclass": sorted(_all_classes),
+        "bymerge": sorted(_all_classes - _merged_classes),
+        "balanced": sorted(_all_classes - _merged_classes),
         "letters": ["N/A"] + list(string.ascii_lowercase),
         "digits": list(string.digits),
         "mnist": list(string.digits),