> Imagine an excel spreadsheet. I can choose > a column and sort the records based on the items > in that column. I would like to do the same > thing with a large two dimensional array. > What would be the fastest way (in computation time) > to accomplish this?
Now that I think about the problem more, I really want to sort an array of dictionaries according one of the keys of each. Could I use: array.sort(key = something) Where something looks at the proper item in the current row? I can't quite visualize how to pull the item out of the dictionary. Thanks ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list