> The simplest way is to take advantage of sort-stability and do
> successive sorts. For example, to sort by a primary key ascending and
> a secondary key decending:
>
>L.sort(key=lambda r: r.secondary, reverse=True)
>L.sort(key=lambda r: r.primary)
>
Excellent! That looks just like what I
I have successfully used the sort lambda construct described in
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-April/377443.html.
However, how do I take it one step further such that some values can be
sorted ascending and others descending? Easy enough if the sort values
are numeric (just negat
