bug with itertools.groupby?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Kitlbast schrieb:
> Hi there,
> 
> the code below on Python 2.5.2:
> 
> from itertools import groupby
> 
> info_list = [
>     {'profile': 'http://somesite.com/profile1', 'account': 61L},
>     {'profile': 'http://somesite.com/profile2', 'account': 64L},
>     {'profile': 'http://somesite.com/profile3', 'account': 61L},
> ]
> 
> grouped_by_account = groupby(info_list, lambda x: x['account'])
> for acc, iter_info_items in grouped_by_account:
>     print 'grouped acc: ', acc
> 
> gives output:
> 
> grouped acc:  61
> grouped acc:  64
> grouped acc:  61
> 
> am I doing something wrong?

http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html#itertools.groupby

"""
Generally, the iterable needs to already be sorted on the same key function.
"""

Diez