sorting a tuple

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	June Kim [SMTP:junaftnoon at nospamplzyahoo.com]
> 
> 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.
 
AFAIK, a standard sort followed by a reverse would be *much* faster - see
the sorting mini-HOWTO at
<http://www.python.org/doc/howto/sorting/node2.html>.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. -
Bernard Berenson




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