[Zope] Repost: sequence.sort: how can I sort strings?

[danny@adair.net]

Thanks Oleg,

since I am just strolling the archives at the moment
and temporarily stopped subscription to the list, I
didn't get your reply (probably you didn't cc me).

Thanks again,
Danny


Oleg Broytmann wrote

> 
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:23:35PM +1200, Danny Adair
wrote:
> > (haven't figured it out yet, only workarounds...)
> > 
> > How can I sort a sequence of STRINGS using
sequence.sort?
> > I don't know what to use as a "key"...
> > 
> > (I tried self, str, value, '', _.None, ....... :-))
> > 
> > Or in other words: What's the attribute of a string
that returns the string
> > itself?
> 
>    Danny, you already asked the question few weeks
ago, and I answered -
> there is no such key. Don't use sequence.sort(), just
put your strings into
> a list (let us call it "alist") and call alist.sort().
> 
> Oleg.
> -- 
>      Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/     
      phd@phd.pp.ru
>            Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB
without RETURN.