how can I sort a bunch of lists over multiple fields?

[Steven Bethard]

Lonnie Princehouse wrote:
> Might as well make a class for Book instead of dealing with buckets of
> lists...
> 
> class Book(object):
>     def __init__(self, title, author, publisher, isbn, date):    # add
> more fields according to CSV
>         self.__dict__.update(locals())  # lazy!

Just for any newbies not paying attention, a slightly less lazy approach 
that doesn't leave the Book instance referencing itself would do 
something like:

     params = locals()
     del params['self']
     self.__dict__.update(params)

or just write it out:

     self.title = title
     self.author = author
     self.publisher = publisher
     self.isbn = isbn
     self.date = date

=)

STeVe