On Jan 30, 5:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't seem to get this nailed down and I thought I'd toss it out > there as, by gosh, its got to be something simple I'm missing. > > I have two different database tables of events that use different > schemas. I am using python to collate these records for display. I do > this by creating a list of lists that look roughly like this: > > events = [['Event URL as String', 'Event Title as String ', Event Date > as Datetime], ...] > > I then thought I'd just go events.sort(lambda x,y: x[2]<y[2]) and call > it a day. That didn't work. But then lamda functions like to be very > simple, maybe object subscripts aren't allowed (even though I didn't > get an error). So I wrote a comparison function that looks much as you > would expect: > > def date_compare(list1, > list2): > x = list1[2] > y = list2[2] > if > x>y: > return > 1 > elif > x==y: > return > 0 > else: # > x<y > return -1 > > But as before sorting with this function returns None. > > What have I overlooked?
All sorts return None. the sort is in place. Check your list post- sort. THN -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
