Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list

2012-09-21 Thread Ivan@work
On 21.09.2012 00:58, thorso...@lavabit.com wrote: Hi, list = [{'1': []}, {'2': []}, {'3': ['4', '5']}] I want to check for a value (e.g. '4'), and get the key of the dictionary that contains that value. (Yep, this is bizarre.) some_magic(list, '4') => '3' What's the functional way to do it? I

Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome

2012-07-23 Thread Ivan@work
On 21.07.2012 21:08, Lipska the Kat wrote: Greetings Pythoners A short while back I posted a message that described a task I had set myself. I wanted to implement the following bash shell script in Python Here's the script sort -nr $1 | head -${2:-10} this script takes a filename and an optio