creating an artificial "last element" in sort list

[dave]

more clearer, this is a more realistic use case:

['awefawef', 'awefawfsf', 'awefsdf', 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz', 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz', 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz']

and the quantity of ''zzzzzzzzzzzzzz'' would be dynamic.

On Friday, September 28, 2012 4:46:15 PM UTC-7, Ian wrote:

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> > a = ['a', 'b', x]
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> > What does x need to be to always be last on an ascending sort no matter what 'a' and 'b' are.... within reason... I am expecting 'a' and 'b' will be not longer than 10 char's long.... I tried making x = 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz' and believe it or not, this appears FIRST on the sort!!!
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> It appears last when I run the code.
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> To answer your question, though, if you want to force x to be last,
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> then I suggest removing it from the list and then appending it to the
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> end.