On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:53 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 03/10/2017 12:43 AM, Chris Green wrote: >> Erik <pyt...@lucidity.plus.com> wrote: >>> On 09/03/17 13:09, Chris Green wrote: >>>> Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On 03/08/2017 12:27 PM, Chris Green wrote: >>>>>> I have a fairly simple application that populates a GUI window with >>>>>> fields from a database table. The fields are defined/configured by a >>>>>> dictionary as follows:- >>>>> >>>>> Instead of ordering the data in Python, why not rely on the GUI to do >>>>> the sort? Most GUI's even have table widgets that let you click on >>>>> the headings to sort arbitrarily. >>>>> >>>> How would it sort it? The order I want is arbitrary, or at least not >>>> alphabetical or anything, I just want the order to be the way I >>>> listed it. >>> >>> To be fair to Michael, you did not state your required order in the >>> message that he replied to. You just kept saying "the order I want". >>> >>> If you're going to make people guess, don't chastise them for guessing >>> wrong :D >>> >> OK. :-) >> >> However how else can one describe an order which isn't 'sorted'? ... >> other than as the order one wants? > > I want the order to be the same as the order I enter them in. ;)
That's not the same thing at all. I added Fred to the address book in January. I added Sue to the address book in February. I added George to the address book in March. But I want them to show up in the order Sue, George, Fred. As far as I can see, the only way to display the contents of a dict in some arbitrary order is to keep an auxilary list of the keys in the order you want it. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
