HI dburns, Thanks for your reply.
On Oct 2, 5:04 pm, dburns <[email protected]> wrote: > Seems like you can use the technique in the linked document, but > replace order("-when") with order("-score"), so I guess the real issue > is how to display the rank (I assume you mean first place, second > place, etc.). If displaying pages of players, I think you can just > use a counter (in Python code, not the data store) that increments > with each displayed name. > > I guess the real challenge is, when talking to a specific player, how > do you tell them that they are ranked 50000th. I'm pretty new to GAE, > but I'd probably use a query that selected records that were less than > the current user's score, and then get the count (ignoring ties). > > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queryclass.htm... The problem here is that count() won't return more than 1000. It seems I'll have to store the rank with the user, but then the challenge is inserting new users, or updating the ranks as scores change. Cheers, Josh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
