dwelden wrote: > I have successfully used the sort lambda construct described in > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-April/377443.html. > However, how do I take it one step further such that some values can be > sorted ascending and others descending? Easy enough if the sort values > are numeric (just negate the value), but what about text?
You got already some good replies; here's yet another less-than-optimal way: class revstr(str): def __lt__(self, other): return str.__gt__(self,other) def __gt__(self, other): return str.__lt__(self,other) L.sort(key=lambda i: (i.somestring, revstr(i.someotherstring), i.anotherkey)) George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list