On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Charles Heizer <ceh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, > > sortedlist = sorted(mylist , key=lambda elem: "%s %s" % (elem['name'], > LooseVersion(elem['version'])), reverse=True) > > This is what I was trying but LooseVersion() was not sorting version numbers > like I thought it would. You will notice that Chrome version "40.0.2214.111" > is higher than "40.0.2214.91" but in the end result it's not sorting it that > way.
Because it's a string they're sorted lexicographically, and in that ordering "40.0.2214.111" is less than "40.0.2214.91". Instead of a string you should probably use some sort of version info tuple. A simple tuple of ints may suffice, although you may need to get a little cleverer if there are ever any version strings that aren't entirely dotted numeric. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
