Learning Python via a little word frequency program

[Paul Hankin]

On Jan 9, 12:19 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
42.desthuilli... at wtf.websiteburo.oops.com> wrote:
> Andrew Savige a écrit :
> > and the -x hack above to
> > achieve a descending sort feels a bit odd to me, though I couldn't think
> > of a better way to do it.
>
> The "other" way would be to pass a custom comparison callback to sort,
> which would be both slower and more complicated. Your solution is IMHO
> the right thing to do here.

Both list.sort and sorted have a parameter 'reverse' which does a
descending rather than ascending sort.

eg.
deco.sort(reverse=True)
for v, k in deco:
    ...

or
for v, k in sorted(deco, reverse=True):
    ...

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Paul Hankin