On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Kent Johnson wrote: > Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> Itertools.groupby is totally impenetrable to me > > Maybe this will help: > http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2005_12.html#e69 > > Kent >
It did! Thanks very much. I think I understand now what's going on in the groupby line. And then this line: t.append((sorted_part[-1].submit_date, key, sorted_part)) is basically a Decorate-Sort-Undecorate operation, sorting on sorted_part[-1].submit_date because that's guaranteed to be the latest date in each group? It's starting to come clear... _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
