On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The option order in webhelpers.html.tags.select() has changed from
> [(label, value)] to [(value, label)].  This matches most real-world
> lists including dict.items() where the dict is {id : label}.  It's the
> opposite of the old rails helper options_for_select(), however.
>
> There are tradeoffs both ways.  Now to display lables alphabetically
> you have to do:
>    sorted(my_options, key=lambda x: x[1])
>
> However, I was finding that the other order causes way too many:
>    [(x[1], x[0]) for x in some_list]

I fear that this is too likely to cause weird bugs for people.
Perhaps you should create a new method name.  You can have the old one
defined in terms of the new, and then deprecate it.

-jj

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