I have successfully used the sort lambda construct described in
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-April/377443.html.
However, how do I take it one step further such that some values can be
sorted ascending and others descending? Easy enough if the sort values
are numeric (just
The simplest way is to take advantage of sort-stability and do
successive sorts. For example, to sort by a primary key ascending and
a secondary key decending:
L.sort(key=lambda r: r.secondary, reverse=True)
L.sort(key=lambda r: r.primary)
Excellent! That looks just like what I
