I have a list of tuples, and one of the fields in the tuple is score. So how can
I sort the list by the score?
Thanks in advance 5 4550
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 18:22, Valkyrie wrote: I have a list of tuples, and one of the fields in the tuple is score. So how can I sort the list by the score?
Assuming the score field is index 1 of each tuple:
def cmp(a,b):
if a[1] < b[1]:
return -1
elif a[1] > b[1]:
return 1
else:
return 0
my_tuple_list.s ort(cmp)
(technically the elifs could be ifs, and the final else could be omitted
in favour of just 'return 0', but for clarity the above is IMO best).
see 'help(list.sort )' for more information.
To whoever added this fantastic feature, thanks and more thanks. It's
saved me so much work at times that it's just crazy.
--
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:22:45 +0800
Valkyrie <va******@cuhk. edu.hk> wrote: I have a list of tuples, and one of the fields in the tuple is score. So how can I sort the list by the score?
In 2.4 you can use key argument of sort method: l = [('a', 2), ('c', 3), ('b', 1)] l.sort(key=lamb da i: i[1]) l
[('b', 1), ('a', 2), ('c', 3)]
otherwise pass comparison function: l = [('a', 2), ('c', 3), ('b', 1)] l.sort(lambda i1, i2: cmp(i1[1], i2[0])) l
[('b', 1), ('c', 3), ('a', 2)]
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Thank you all, it's perfectly fine now :)
Valkyrie wrote: I have a list of tuples, and one of the fields in the tuple is score. So how can I sort the list by the score?
Thanks in advance
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:22:45 +0800, rumours say that Valkyrie
<va******@cuhk. edu.hk> might have written: I have a list of tuples, and one of the fields in the tuple is score. So how can I sort the list by the score?
Python 2.4:
def sort_tuple_list (tuple_list, index_of_score) :
tuple_list.sort (key=operator.i temgetter(index _of_score))
If for example your tuple_list is of the format (v1, score, v3, v4),
then you sort by
sort_tuple_list (tuple_list, 1)
1 is the second item (0 is the first).
actual example: import operator tuple_list= [
('chris', 15),
('pers6', 3),
('pers1', 56),
] sort_tuple_list (tuple_list, 1) tuple_list
[('pers6', 3), ('chris', 15), ('pers1', 56)]
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Valkyrie wrote: I have a list of tuples, and one of the fields in the tuple is score. So how can I sort the list by the score?
Thanks in advance
Others have showed the possibility of a comparison function, but often
it's faster to use the decorate-sort-undecorate pattern:
def sort_on(list_to _sort, field_num):
templist = [ (item[field_num], item) for item in list_to_sort ]
templist.sort()
return [ item[1] for item in templist ]
Note that I'm creating a new list, leaving the original list unsorted.
You can easily rebind the original name to the sorted list if needed --
mylist = sort_on(mylist, 3)
I believe that using the key=... in 2.4 is faster than this DSU pattern,
but DSU is typically faster than using a cmp() function/lambda.
Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
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