Hi, ALL, I'm trying to do a very easy task: sort python dictionary by value where value is a datetime object.
When trying to do that in Python shell everthing works as expected. C:\Documents and Settings\Igor.FORDANWORK>python Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:43:36) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a = {} >>> import datetime >>> a['1'] = datetime.datetime(2012,12,28,12,15,30,100) >>> a['2'] = datetime.datetime(2012,12,28,12,17,29,100) >>> a['3'] = datetime.datetime(2012,12,28,12,16,44,100) >>> sorted(a.items(), key=a.get) [('1', datetime.datetime(2012, 12, 28, 12, 15, 30, 100)), ('3', datetime.datetim e(2012, 12, 28, 12, 16, 44, 100)), ('2', datetime.datetime(2012, 12, 28, 12, 17, 29, 100))] >>> However, trying to do the same thing from the script does not sort the dictionary: sorted(my_dict.items(), key=my_dict.get, reverse=False) for key, value in my_dict.items(): print value, key the dictionary prints with unsorted items. I am trying to run it on Windows XP and the data are coming from the DB. What am I missing? Thank you. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list