On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:24:05 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:17:44 +0100, Gilles Ganault wrote: [...] >> I see that dictionaries can be sorted using the... sort() method, but >> is it possible to have Python start sorting from a different letter? > > You can write a customer sort routine by using the key parameter to > sort, which will probably be messy. What I'd do is keep 27 lists of user > names, according to the first letter (26 letters from A to Z, plus one > extra):
Replying to myself... the first sign of insanity *wink* While I'd still stick to that basic strategy, I'd wrap the functionality in a class so that the whole thing was transparent to the caller. So instead of the example I gave: > # add a new user > users[3].append('daniel') I'd write the class so the caller just needed to do: users.add('daniel') and the class would calculate which inner list to append it to. I just thought I'd make that clear in case you thought I expected you to manually keep track of which inner list each name should go into. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list