[Tutor] globbing and sorting and dating, oh my!

[Daniel Ehrenberg]

Kirk Bailey wrote:
> Ok, I want to write a WHAT'S NEW function for
> wikinehesa the 
> wikiwikiweb system I wrote in python. This is
> something to sort 
> through available pages, organize/sort according to
> date, chop off 
> that portion of the list which is older than FOO
> days old, and concert 
> the date to something mere normals will comprehend,
> then print each 
> item as a line in a web page- as a link of course.
> NATURALLY I grok 
> the html part. converting data data to calendar is a
> little odd to me, 
> and I am considering several ways to organize the
> data- and as arrays 
> are not inherent to python, I am going to use
> several parallel lists 
> instead. I throw open the front door to discussion,
> suggestions, ON 
> TOPIC BAUDY HUMOR, and anything else that fits in
> through the door.
> 
> If the dates are a list, and I sort the list, the
> corresponding list 
> of filenames no longer corresponds. THIS is an issue
> which looms large 
> in my army surplus used brain.
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Try zipping the lists together and then sorting it. Be
sure that the one you want to sort by is first.

Daniel Ehrenberg

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