sorting a tuple

[June Kim]

<etsang at my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8usna1$2fo$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me if there is any library function to srot a tuple ind
> ecending order? if not, can someone supply the code???
> thanks
>
>
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You can't sort a tuple IN PLACE. You should copy it to a list and proceed.
There are several possible ways doing the descending order sorting and
this is one of them:

tuple=(100,4,59,1000,82)
tosort= list(tuple)
tosort.sort(lambda x,y:-cmp(x,y))

p.s. You could reverse the list with the built-in reverse() instead of using
customized sort.

Best regards,

June