[Tutor] Sort a Set
Kent Johnson
kent37 at tds.net
Tue Aug 23 20:06:42 CEST 2005
Terry Carroll wrote:
> Sorry, I missed you were on 2.3.x, and I think sorted() is new with 2.4.
> You'd instead have to do the sort in a separate step:
>
>
>>>>l=[24, 24, 15, 16, 16, 15, 24]
>>>>l=list(set(l))
>>>>l.sort(reverse=True)
>>>>l
>
> [24, 16, 15]
Actually the reverse parameter is new in 2.4 too, you have to do that in a separate step also:
l=list(set(l))
l.sort()
l.reverse()
Kent
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