[Tutor] SQLite3 DB Field Alphabetizing

[Joel Goldstick]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:

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> "David Hutto" <smokefloat at gmail.com> wrote
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>  > Did you include an ORDER BY?
>>
>> See three posts above, line 6.
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>
> Just a guess.  You strip the letter u from your list items.  Is there a
letter u in each of them?  You are sorting on the item before you strip the
u.  So, if the one strange item in your list has a u in front, but no others
do, it will end up ordering as in your results.


>                for graphname in self.orderbygname:
>                        self.liorder.append(str(graphname[0]).lstrip('u'))
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Joel Goldstick
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