Scott David Daniels wrote: > Kent Johnson wrote: >> In Python 2.5 you can do this with operator.attrgetter(): >> L.sort(key=operator.attrgetter('whatever', 'someother', 'anotherkey')) > > Note: this is also available in Python 2.4
No, the ability to specify more than one attribute name, making a getter that returns a tuple, is a Python 2.5 enhancement. In 2.4: In [1]: import operator In [2]: operator.attrgetter('whatever', 'someother', 'anotherkey') ------------------------------------------------------------ Traceback (most recent call last): File "<ipython console>", line 1, in ? TypeError: attrgetter expected 1 arguments, got 3 Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list