Thomas Krüger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rehceb Rotkiv schrieb: > > can I sort a multidimensional array in Python by multiple sort keys? A > > litte code sample would be nice! > > You can pass a function as argument to the sort method of a list. > The function should take two arguments and return -1, 0 or 1 as > comparison result. Just like the cmp function. > > This will objects in list obj_lst by their id attributes: > > def sorter(a, b): > return cmp(a.id, b.id) > > obj_lst.sort(sorter)
A MUCH better way to obtain exactly the same semantics would be: def getid(a): return a.id obj_list.sort(key=getid) Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list