Paddy wrote: ... > I searched for dependancy sort, and later dependency sort (cos I > couldn't spell). I had convinced that I was using the right term and > was flummoxed by the lack of hits. Even today the term topological > sort means far less than what it describes: sorting items based on > their interdependencies. > "dependency sort python" typed into Google today gives a post pointing to http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/ (which has Tim and my algorithms (toposort.py)) as the second link... vagaries of Google I suppose. > Is this a case of something being named after its mathematical/ > technical description and so obscuring its wider practical use cases? > Could be, I tried to make sure that the word dependency was in the description on the download page (since I had the same problem starting out (I implemented the algorithm before I knew the name IIRC)). > P.S. we have revived a thread started in 1999! > For some of us 1999 is well into our Pythonic life-cycle :)
Have fun, Mike -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list