[Tutor] sorting into lists

[Magnus Lycka]

At 23:32 2002-09-20 -0500, Tim Wilson wrote:
>etc. The reason I need the list of lists is because it's the most
>obvious way I can think of to iterate over the events and print the date
>at the beginning of each inner loop. (Think nested for loops.)

Think again! :)

oldDate =3D None

for element in straightList:
     date =3D getDate(element) # you figure it out
     if date !=3D oldDate:
         print date
         oldDate =3D date
     print detailsToPrint(element)

Why make it more complicated than that?


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