On Apr 8, 8:15 am, "Steven Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I have a list of items of mixed type, can I put something into it
> such that after a list.sort(), is guaranteed to be at the end of the
> list?
Since the other guys gave you the real answer, how about this:
sentinel = object()
myl
Steven Clark wrote:
> If I have a list of items of mixed type, can I put something into it
> such that after a list.sort(), is guaranteed to be at the end of the
> list?
> It looks like "None" always ends up at the start ("lightest"), but I
> want the opposite ("heaviest").
I don't know of an
> You can pass a cmp-function that will always make one object being greater
> than all others.
>
> Diez
> --
Yeah, I figured it out 2 minutes after I posted, d'oh!
class Anvil(object):
def __cmp__(self. other):
return 1
Sorry for the wasted space.
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Steven Clark wrote:
> If I have a list of items of mixed type, can I put something into it
> such that after a list.sort(), is guaranteed to be at the end of the
> list?
>
> Looking at http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/ref/comparisons.html
> "Most other types compare unequal unless they are the sam
If I have a list of items of mixed type, can I put something into it
such that after a list.sort(), is guaranteed to be at the end of the
list?
Looking at http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/ref/comparisons.html
"Most other types compare unequal unless they are the same object; the
choice whether one
