[Python-Dev] PEP 265 - Sorting Dictionaries by Value (original) (raw)

Greg Stein gstein@lyra.org
Thu, 23 Aug 2001 06:59:07 -0700

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:01:49PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:

Barry Scott <barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>:

> How should all the variations be handled? def order(index = None, field = None, descending = 0):

Lose the last arg... call them ascending() and descending(). Sorting already implies an "order" so that name is redundant

... from sorting import order

x.sort(order(index = 3)) x.sort(order(field = "customername", descending = 1))

from sorting import ascending, descending

x.sort(ascending(index = 3)) x.sort(descending(field = 'customer_name'))

The next step is to allow sort() itself to take the same keyword parameters directly:

x.sort(index = 3) x.sort(field = "customername", descending = 1)

eek... no :-)

Cheers, -g

-- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/