In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Howell wrote: >> def key_func(item): >> return (len(item), item) >> >> data = ['viking', 'spam', 'parrot', 'ham', 'eric'] >> data.sort(key=key_func) >> print data >> > > Marc, when did the key feature get introduced, 2.4 or > 2.5? I'm asking on behalf of the newbie, who's going > to struggle with your solution if he's still running > 2.3.
It's available in 2.4 but I don't know when it was introduced. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list