creating an artificial "last element" in sort list
88888 Dihedral
dihedral88888 at googlemail.com
Fri Sep 28 20:24:59 EDT 2012
dave於 2012年9月29日星期六UTC+8上午7時51分10秒寫道:
> more clearer, this is a more realistic use case:
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> ['awefawef', 'awefawfsf', 'awefsdf', 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz', 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz', 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz']
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> and the quantity of ''zzzzzzzzzzzzzz'' would be dynamic.
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> On Friday, September 28, 2012 4:46:15 PM UTC-7, Ian wrote:
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> > > a = ['a', 'b', x]
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> > > What does x need to be to always be last on an ascending sort no matter what 'a' and 'b' are.... within reason... I am expecting 'a' and 'b' will be not longer than 10 char's long.... I tried making x = 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz' and believe it or not, this appears FIRST on the sort!!!
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> > It appears last when I run the code.
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> > To answer your question, though, if you want to force x to be last,
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> > then I suggest removing it from the list and then appending it to the
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I am thinking if it is helpful to preprocess an arbitrary
list first into some set of unique ordered elements before a sort.
Anyway lists are passed by references to functions in python.
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