On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Peter Pearson <ppear...@nowhere.invalid> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:56:30 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic <hnik...@xemacs.org> wrote: > [snip] >> a.sort(key=lambda (x, y): b[y - 1], reverse=True) > > Huh? I had no idea one could do this: > >>>> def g( ( ( x, y ), z ) ): > ... return y > ... >>>> g( ((1,2),3) ) > 2 > > What should I have read to learn that trick?
Don't bother. It's been excised in Python 3.0. Cheers, Chris -- I have a blog: http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list