sorting strings by size

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Mark Robinson wrote:
> Can anyone thing of a more eligant way of doing this? I am trying to
> extract the keys of my dict and sort them according to size, but this
> currently seems kinda crude
>
> temp = [(len(x), x) for x in motifs.keys()]
> temp.sort()
> temp.reverse()
> motiflist = [x[1] for x in temp]

   According to Sorting HOWTO
http://py-howto.sourceforge.net/sorting/sorting.html
   you are doing fine, nothing crude here!

Oleg.
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