On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 6:45 AM, <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> c...@isbd.net wrote: >> >> > I have a dictionary as follows:- >> > >> > { >> > u'StarterAmps1': Row(id=4, ain=u'AIN3', name=u'StarterAmps1', >> > conv=6834.374834509803, Description=u'Starter Amps'), u'LeisureVolts': >> > Row(id=1, ain=u'AIN0', name=u'LeisureVolts', conv=29.01374215995874, >> > Description=u'Leisure Volts'), u'RudderPos': Row(id=6, ain=u'AIN5', >> > name=u'RudderPos', conv=0.028125, Description=u'Rudder Position'), u'xx': >> > Row(id=7, ain=u'AIN6', name=u'xx', conv=0.028125, Description=u''), >> > u'LeisureAmps1': Row(id=3, ain=u'AIN2', name=u'LeisureAmps1', >> > conv=32.727273081945, Description=u'Leisure Amps'), u'StarterVolts': >> > Row(id=2, ain=u'AIN1', name=u'StarterVolts', conv=28.94469628911757, >> > Description=u'Starter Volts') } >> > >> > I want to output a menu to a user comprising some parts of the >> > dictionary (ain and Description) sorted by ain. >> > >> > Is there some incantation of sorted() that will do what I want? I >> > can't quite fathom out the 'key=' parameter needed to sort it by the >> > tuple item. Maybe I need a cmp= ? >> > >> > E.g. I want to do something like:- >> > >> > for meas in sorted(adc.cfg, key=???): >> > print(adc.cfg[meas].ain, adc.cfg[meas].Description) >> > >> > What's needed in the ??? >> >> for meas in sorted(adc.cfg, key=lambda key: adc.cfg[key].ain): >> print(adc.cfg[meas].ain, adc.cfg[meas].Description) >> > Brilliant, worked perfectly, thank you. The bit I didn't understamd was > that 'lambda' bit, but I just looked it up and I'm a bit clearer now. > >> or simpler >> >> for row in sorted(adc.cfg.values(), key=operator.attrgetter("ain")) >> print(row.ain, row.Description) >> > I tried this, I got:- > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/chris/bin/calibrate.py", line 24, in <module> > for meas in sorted(adc.cfg.values, > key=operator.attrgetter("ain")): > NameError: name 'operator' is not defined > I must admit that it's the bits like 'operator' in the parameters that > I can't really understand where they come from. >
operator is a module. See https://docs.python.org/2/library/operator.html#module-operator > >> or even >> >> for row in sorted( >> map(operator.attrgetter("ain", "Description"), adc.cfg.values())): >> print(*row) >> > > -- > Chris Green > ยท > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list