> The simplest way is to take advantage of sort-stability and do > successive sorts. For example, to sort by a primary key ascending and > a secondary key decending: > > L.sort(key=lambda r: r.secondary, reverse=True) > L.sort(key=lambda r: r.primary) > Excellent! That looks just like what I needed.
> A less general technique is to transform fields in a way that reverses > their comparison order: > > L.sort(key=lambda r: (-r.age, r.height)) # sorts descending age > and ascending height This one I had figured out, but could not see how to get it to work for strings. Much obliged. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
