[Tutor] sorting a list of dictionaries

[Larry Holish]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:22:29PM -0500, Kent Johnson wrote:
> Using sort() with a user compare function is not recommended when you
> care about performance. The problem is that the sort function has to
> call back into Python code for every compare, of which there are many.
> The decorate - sort - undecorate idiom is the preferred way to do this
> in Python < 2.4.  Python 2.4 adds the key= parameter to sort() and
> does the DSU internally.

Karl, Kent, thanks for your prompt responses. I'm running python 2.3,
and the DSU method performs nicely.
 
Regards,
    Larry
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