On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:39:35 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Finally I concocted an "infinite" example which we agreed is artificial: > you are given a list of generators denoting real numbers, for example > pi generates the infinite sequence 3,1,4,1,5,9... while e generates > 2,7,1,8,... You can sort these with cmp but not with key.
Is there some restriction on the return type of the key= function? If not, you can define a class with appropriate comparison methods and have key= return instances of that class. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
