[Tutor] sorting / outputting varibales

[ted b]

Thanks Kent, and Evert, and everyone,
I really appreciate the advice on etiqutte and all
your help. I will think through my questions much more
thoroughly before any further inquiries and will
'reply to all' as advised.
--- Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:

> ted b wrote:
> 
> > Here's the code i am using, but its a lot of if /
> > thens and i'm trying to find a better way:
> > 
> >       if var1.value > var2.value > var3.value: 
> >          objSprites = pygame.sprite.OrderedUpdates
> > (var1, var2, var3)
> 
> Did you see Evert's reply to your original question?
> It was pretty close 
> to the mark. Though you had not said anything about
> the .value 
> attributes until now.
> 
> Try this:
> from operator import attrgetter
> vars = [ var1, var2, var3 ]
> vars.sort(key=attrgetter('value'))
> objSprites = pygame.sprite.OrderedUpdates(*vars)
> 
> This will sort the vars list by the value attribute
> of each list item, 
> then pass the list as the parameter list to
> OrderedUpdates().
> 
> Kent
> 
> PS Please use Reply All to reply to the list.
> 


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