Thanks for the answers. My goal was to try to avoid hard coding
and add a little shine to the code I have inherited. But its
too far gone already and time is short. So have used Mike's answer.
Mike answer with minor changes:
import datetime
import pprint
import operator
import time
entries = [{
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:54:56 -0700 (PDT)
Oni wrote:
> Managed to get a dictionary to sort on multiple columns using a tuple
> to set the sort order (see below). However how can I control that
> column "date" orders descending and the column "name" orders
> ascending.
...
> bob = entries
> bob.sor
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Managed to get a dictionary to sort on multiple columns using a tuple
to set the sort order (see below). However how can I control that
column "date" orders descending and the column "name" orders
