On Sep 28, 8:30 pm, xkenneth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looking to do something similair. I'm working with alot of timestamps
> and if they're within a couple seconds I need them to be indexed and
> removed from a list.
> Is there any possible way to index with a custom cmp() function?
>
> I assume it would be something like...
>
> list.index(something,mycmp)
>
> Thanks!
Wouldn't it be enough to get the items that are "within a couple of
seconds" out of the list and into another list. Then you can process
the other list however you want. Like this:
def isNew(x):
return x < 5
data = range(20)
print data
out, data = filter(isNew, data), filter(lambda x: not isNew(x), data)
print out, data
Why do you want to use 'index'?
Your suggestion "list.index.__cmp__ = mycmp" certainly doesn't do
anything good. In fact, it just fails because the assignment is
illegal.. I don't think any documentation suggests doing that, so why
are you even trying to do that? It's just not a good idea to invent
semantics and hope that they work, in general.
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