Steven Clark wrote: > If I have a list of items of mixed type, can I put something into it > such that after a list.sort(), is guaranteed to be at the end of the > list? > > Looking at http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/ref/comparisons.html > "Most other types compare unequal unless they are the same object; the > choice whether one object is considered smaller or larger than another > one is made arbitrarily but consistently within one execution of a > program." > > makes me unsure. > > It looks like "None" always ends up at the start ("lightest"), but I > want the opposite ("heaviest").
You can pass a cmp-function that will always make one object being greater than all others. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
