On Sat, 14 May 2005 19:20:24 -0700, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>MackS wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I've got several large sets in my program. After performing several
>> operations on these I wish to present one set to the user [as a list]
>> sorted according to a certain criterion. Is t
Thank you for the pointer. I'll upgrade to 2.4.
Best,
Mack
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Robert Kern wrote:
> MackS wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I've got several large sets in my program. After performing several
>> operations on these I wish to present one set to the user [as a list]
>> sorted according to a certain criterion. Is there any direct way to do
>> so? Or must I
>>
>> list
"MackS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Can I somehow avoid doing this in two stages? Can I somehow avoid first
> creating a long list only to immediately sort it afterwards?
Yes, you could interatively extract and append the min of the set
(selection sort), but th
MackS wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've got several large sets in my program. After performing several
> operations on these I wish to present one set to the user [as a list]
> sorted according to a certain criterion. Is there any direct way to do
> so? Or must I
>
> list = []
>
> for item in set1:
>
Dear all,
I've got several large sets in my program. After performing several
operations on these I wish to present one set to the user [as a list]
sorted according to a certain criterion. Is there any direct way to do
so? Or must I
list = []
for item in set1:
list.append(item)
list.sort(...
