Thanks I'll give that a shot.
Just to clarify if I have the correct implementation in mind, would mylist
list be a queryset of the items I want sorted?
Also, I am not very familiar with the lambda syntax. Does x needs to be
something? Or do I leave that part as is?
Thanks,
James Hancock
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Sam Walters <mr.sam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Personally I would map the priority of every character in a dict and
> pass this to sorted:
>
> dd = { "cha1": 1,
> "char2": 2,
> "char3": 3,
> "char4": 4,
> }
> result = sorted(mylist, key=lambda x:dd[x[0]])
>
>
> Point being if the db query isnt too slow you could use python.
>
> cheers
>
> sam_w
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Seth Gordon <se...@ropine.com> wrote:
> > On 01/05/2011 07:57 AM, James Hancock wrote:
> >> I think it does the same thing, but I was talking about how you cant set
> >> 'ordering' under the Meta class in a model.
> >>
> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/models/options/#django.db.models.Options.ordering
> >>
> >> <
> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/models/options/#django.db.models.Options.ordering
> >If
> >> I set it to a field of Japanese characters, the ordering comes out
> wrong. At
> >> least not in the desired order.
> >> How can I set the data collation for just a few fields? And how can I
> know
> >> which of the Japanese to set it to?
> >
> > Does the “strcoll” function in Python’s standard “locale” module do the
> > right thing when a Japanese locale is set? If not, can you persuade the
> > PyICU package to do the right thing?
> >
> > If either of these works, then you could slurp your results into a
> > Python list and then sort the list using one of these methods. This
> > wouldn’t perform too well, of course, if you had thousands and thousands
> > of results and you wanted the database to peel off the top ten... but if
> > for some reason collation at the database level isn’t working, doing it
> > all at the Python level might be better than nothing.
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