New submission from David Manowitz:
I'm trying to sort a list of tuples. Most of the tuples are pairs of US state
names. However, some of the tuples have None instead of the 2nd name. I want
the items sorted first by the 1st element, and then by the 2nd element, BUT I
want the None to count as LARGER than any name. Thus, I want to see
[('Alabama', 'Iowa'), ('Alabama', None)] rather than [('Alabama', None),
('Alabama', 'Iowa')]. I defined the following comparitor:
def cmp_keys (k1, k2):
retval = cmp(k1[0], k2[0])
if retval == 0:
if k2[1] is None:
retval = -1
if k1[1] is None:
retval = 1
else:
retval = cmp(k1[1], k2[1])
return retval
However, once I sort using this, some of the elements are out of order.
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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 263367
nosy: David.Manowitz
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Possible bug in sorting algorithm
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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