Gerard Flanagan wrote: > SpreadTooThin wrote: > > I have a list and I need to do a custom sort on it... > > > > for example: > > a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] #Although not necessarily in order > > > 1 4 7 10 > > 2 5 8 > > 3 6 9 > > > > from math import sqrt > > for i in range(2,12): > seq = range(1,i) > numcols = int(sqrt(len(seq))) > print columnise(seq, numcols) >
should be: numcols = int(sqrt(len(seq) + 0.5) Gerard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
