RE: sorting items in a table problematic because of scientific notation

Thank you _ that solved it.   Amélie    Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail or any of its attachments (if applicable)   -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+aydavis=purdue@python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+aydavis=purdue@python.org] On Be

RE: sorting items in a table problematic because ofscientific notation

Worked like a charm! Thanks to all 3 of you,   Amélie    Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail or any of its attachments (if applicable)   -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+aydavis=purdue@python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+aydavis=purdue@p

sorting items in a table problematic because of scientific notation

Hi All, I have a dbf table outputted by another program that I cannot (I'm pretty sure) change the format of. I use a dbf reader code found online (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/362715/ ) to read the table in and I need to sort it on a particular field but this field has scientific notat