On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> def compare(x,y): > if type(x) == str: return -1 > if type(y) == str: return 1 > return cmp(x,y) > > > Runs into problems if you have multiple strings and want them sorted too... A slight variation - if the types are the same, use cmp(): In [1]: def compare(x, y): ...: if type(x) == type(y): ...: return cmp(x, y) ...: if type(x) == str: return -1 ...: if type(y) == str: return 1 ...: return cmp(x, y) # This is kind of arbitrary ...: In [2]: L = [4,3,'word','picture',1,2,3] In [3]: sorted(L, cmp=compare) Out[3]: ['picture', 'word', 1, 2, 3, 3, 4] In [4]: L = [4,3,'picture','word',1,2,3] In [5]: sorted(L, cmp=compare) Out[5]: ['picture', 'word', 1, 2, 3, 3, 4] Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
