[Tutor] if value in list of dictionaries

[Norman Khine]

thank you, here is the updated version:

http://pastie.org/1186860

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:
> On 9/28/2010 7:12 AM Norman Khine said...
>>
>> thanks for the reply, i think i have it now, perhaps it could be done
>> better
>>
>
> I think I'd use a helper function to sort:
>
> def sortOtherToEnd(val):
>  if val['name'] == 'other:
>    return 'zzzz'
>  return val['name']
>
> #then sort it
>
> topics.sort(key=sortOtherToEnd)
>
> But, generally, I'd stop once I got it going without worrying too much about
> 'better' ways -- that's a subjective measure.  There is often one obvious
> way to do it, but unless you've seen that way before, there'll often be many
> alternatives that work as well.
>
> HTH,
>
> Emile
>
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