Want to meet any of these people? They are registered for PyCon

[Steve Holden]

Stephen Thorne wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:49:53 -0500, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> 
>>Aahz wrote:
>>
>>>In article <ntrLd.101049$Jk5.19243 at lakeread01>,
>>>Steve Holden  <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Note that the sort order isn't perfect - I just sorted on the second
>>>>"word" in each name. PyCon is a *great* place to meet people and discuss
>>>>ideas. Hope to see you there.
>>>
>>>
>>>Good thing I'm not coming this year, eh?  ;-)
>>
>>If you mean specifically for sorting purposes, it would have put the
>>null second name at the beginning just like you'd expect.
> 
> 
> Odd, the naive way I would have written such a script would have been:
> 
> all_names = (line.split() for line in sys.stdin)
> sys.stdout.writelines(' '.join(x[1])+'\n' for x in sorted((name[1],
> name) for name in all_names))
> 
> which would not have worked correctly, it would have thrown an
> exception because "Aahz\n".split()[1] does not exist.
> 
> I guess the second iteration would use name[1:] instead...
> 
> unfortunately-not-going-to-pycon-ly y'rs.
> Stephen Thorne

Sorry you can't make it to Python. My even-naiver way of approaching the 
problem was to use the sort utility built into Cygwin, thereby avoiding 
writing any code at all.

regards
  Steve
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