arrrg i did it again, not enough explanation... new to asking for programing help online. anyway the reason is that the list can be rearanged later in the program by another function, and i need a way to put it in order again.. so yes it is doing some pretty funky stuff, lol. so although your method works well, it would have been problematic for me to implement a two list system in the app for various reasons. but you did make me understand a way to sort this thing finally: sort by base path then by full path, which is how i came up with:
files.sort(key=lambda x: x.lower()) files.sort(key=lambda x: os.path.dirname(x)) well actually i am sorting first by full name, then by base, taking advantage of python2.4's stable sort(). If you can think of a more efficient (faster) way of doing this please let me know. i'm not crazy about having to sort this list twice, it can get pretty big (50,000 entries) anyway thanks all, this thing had me stuck for over a month !! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
