Bengt Richter wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:03:34 +0100, Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Ordering the keys isn't the normal case, and can be done easily when > >> needed. > > > >That depends. Maybe I do not want the keys to be sorted alphabetically, > >but according to some criteria which cannot be derived from the keys > >themselves. > You mean involving also the values? What's wrong with > sorted(plaindict.items(), key=your_ordering_function) ? > Not according to the content of the data, not just the "key". Or in other words, some other metadata that is not present in the data. A typical thing, like order of creation. Or some arbitary order. For example :
I present a data grid/table in a HTML form and the user just drag and drop and rearrange the columns order. Of course, you may say, just put another column that represent this(some reporting programs I have seen do it this way) and that is an option but not the only option. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
