thanks for the reply, i think i have it now, perhaps it could be done better
http://pastie.org/1186545 On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com> wrote: > Hi Norman, > > Read my reply again -- that's the second question I answered. > > Emile > > > On 9/28/2010 12:56 AM Norman Khine said... >> >> thanks for the reply. i should have been more specific in my question ;) >> >> the order in which 'other' is listed is not always the last item of >> the list as it is dependent on where in the CSV file it is included. >> >> what i was trying to do is to take create the list of dictionary items >> and then find the item which has name=='other' and then put this as >> the last item in the list. >> >> so from this list http://pastie.org/1185974 how do i select the item >> name == 'other' and put it at the end of the list? >> >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Emile van Sebille<em...@fenx.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 9/27/2010 1:22 PM Norman Khine said... >>> >>>> what is the correct way to ensure that {'industry': 'travel', 'name': >>>> 'other','value': MSG(u"Other")} is always added to the end of this >>>> list after all the items have been sorted? >>>> >>>> here is the code which returns this list: >>> >>> options.sort(key=itemgetter('name')) >>> return options >>> >>> So, to answer the question you ask above, you can do: >>> >>> options.sort(key=itemgetter('name')) >>> options.append({'industry':'travel', >>> 'name':'other','value':MSG(u"Other")} >>> return options >>> >>> But I don't think that's the question you're looking to get answered. >>> >>> I think you want "other" to be found only at the end and not elsewhere. >>> >>> Then you might try excluding other from options allowing the above to >>> append >>> it to the end: >>> >>> for index, row in enumerate(topics.get_rows()): >>> if row[0] != 'other': >>> options.append({'name': row[0], 'value': MSG(row[1])}) >>> >>> HTH, >>> >>> Emile >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org >>> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >>> >> >> > > -- ˙uʍop ǝpısdn p,uɹnʇ pןɹoʍ ǝɥʇ ǝǝs noʎ 'ʇuǝɯɐן sǝɯıʇ ǝɥʇ puɐ 'ʇuǝʇuoɔ ǝq s,ʇǝן ʇǝʎ %>>> "".join( [ {'*':'@','^':'.'}.get(c,None) or chr(97+(ord(c)-83)%26) for c in ",adym,*)&uzq^zqf" ] ) _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor