On 14/09/10 01:11, Pete O'Connell wrote:
theList = ["21 trewuuioi","3zxc","134445"]
print sorted(theList)
Hi, the result of the sorted list above doesn't print in the order I
want. Is there a straight forward way of getting python to print
['3zxc','21 trewuuioi','134445']
rather than ['134445', '21 trewuuioi', '3zxc']?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Pete
print sorted(theList)[::-1]
as list indices go [start:end:step] what this means is the whole list
starting from the end and working backwards.
You can also have a look at reversed() if you want an iterator or you
can use theList.reverse() if you want to reverse in place ie.
>>> l = ["21 trewuuioi","3zxc","134445"]
>>> l.reverse()
>>> print l
['134445', '3zxc', '21 trewuuioi']
HTH
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