On Sep 28, 8:30 pm, xkenneth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking to do something similair. I'm working with alot of timestamps > and if they're within a couple seconds I need them to be indexed and > removed from a list. > Is there any possible way to index with a custom cmp() function? > > I assume it would be something like... > > list.index(something,mycmp) > > Thanks!
Wouldn't it be enough to get the items that are "within a couple of seconds" out of the list and into another list. Then you can process the other list however you want. Like this: def isNew(x): return x < 5 data = range(20) print data out, data = filter(isNew, data), filter(lambda x: not isNew(x), data) print out, data Why do you want to use 'index'? Your suggestion "list.index.__cmp__ = mycmp" certainly doesn't do anything good. In fact, it just fails because the assignment is illegal.. I don't think any documentation suggests doing that, so why are you even trying to do that? It's just not a good idea to invent semantics and hope that they work, in general. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list