Re: Baby X is bor nagain

Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:

On 18/06/2024 23:49, Keith Thompson wrote:

Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
[...]

And it didn't take long to get Python to sort the list alphabetically,
but there seemed no way in to the sort comparision function
itself. And I had to give up.

<OT>
https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#sorted
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list.sort
</OT>
 

key specifies a function of one argument that is used to extract a
comparison key from each element in iterable (for example,
key=str.lower). The default value is None (compare the elements directly).
>
You see the problem.

[...]

Yes, I see the problem.

Follow the second link I posted above.  The 4th paragraph provides a
solution to your problem.

If you have any questions, ask them in comp.lang.python, not here.

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