On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Timo <timomli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Emile van Sebille schreef:
>> If this is always the case you can use the sort method of lists, then >> relocate the last entry to the front -- >> >> >>> a = [4, 6, 'word', 3, 9] >> >>> a.sort() >> >>> a.insert(0,a.pop()) >> >>> a >> ['word', 3, 4, 6, 9] >> >>> >> > Thanks all for your answers. I think I will go for this solution (should > have come to it myself). I don't think this will be reliable. IIUC unlike objects are compared by ID, so it is not guaranteed that strings will sort after numbers. The ability to compare unlike objects at all is considered a mis-feature and has been removed in Python 3: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/045111.html Python 3.0.1 (r301:69556, Feb 14 2009, 22:08:17) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a = [4, 6, 'word', 3, 9] >>> a.sort() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: unorderable types: str() < int() Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
