Andy, You are my hero! I can't thank you enough. Hopefully this helps someone else down the path.
Again, many thanks! Dave On Feb 6, 12:50 pm, Andy Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > Javascript {} is a map/hash table, not a list. It doesn't have an > "order". > > If you want the tag, tagname tuples in tag order, you have to put them > in tag order yourself. > > Try "for tag, tagname in sorted(tags.itertems()):" > > Note that "sorted(tags.iteritems())" sorts the keys in string order, > not numeric order, because the tags are strings, not numbers. ("100" > < "2" even though 100 > 2.) > > If you want numeric order, replace "sorted(tags.itertems())" with > something like "sorted([(int(k), v,) for (k,v,) in tags.itertems()])". > > On Feb 6, 8:43 am, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Greetings, Hopefully this is something dumb I'm doing but simplejson > > is reording my lists/arrays. Has anyone seen this? Know how to fix? > > > The scenario is I am placing tags and GLatLngs into db.ListProperties. > > However I've noticed that when written into the table the list is no > > longer in proper order which is a major problem for the GLatLngs.... > > > Specifically what appears to be happening and consistent is passing > > the following json string to simplejson: > > > "tags": { > > "0": "testtag 0", > > "1": "testtag 1", > > "2": "testtag 2", > > "3": "testtag 3", > > "4": "testtag 4" > > } > > > I get reordered data back such as: > > > "tags": {"1":"testtag 1", "0":"testtag 0","3":"testtag 3","2":"testtag > > 2","4":"testtag 4"} > > > This reordered pattern(1,0,3,2,4...) occurs for everything through > > simplejson. I've checked the input/output and removed simplejson to > > isolate it to simplejson doing the reordering. > > > Code snippet below: > > > if request.method == "POST": > > data = request.POST['map'] > > json = simplejson.loads(data) > > my_map = Map() > > tags = json['tags'] > > for tag, tagname in tags.iteritems(): > > my_map.tags.append(tagname) > > my_map.save() > > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. I'm looking at how to reorder > > data back, but ideally want to stop the json reordering. > > > thx, > > > Dave > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
