Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14Jan2019 09:29, mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: Once again thanks for all the suggestions. It was the input data after all. As I am importing three sheets into python. One of the sheets had one less column. Semantic nit: "fewer". "less" is for continuous values. I've had to deal with loosely

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread mhysnm1964
Peter, Thanks for the code for a custom key. That will come in handy later down the track. -Original Message- From: Tutor On Behalf Of Peter Otten Sent: Sunday, 13 January 2019 10:00 PM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error. mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread mhysnm1964
: Stephen Nelson-Smith Sent: Monday, 14 January 2019 1:15 AM To: mhysnm1...@gmail.com Cc: Python Tutor mailing list Subject: Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error. Hi, On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 8:34 AM wrote: > description.sort() > TypeError: unorderable types: float() < str() So, fairly

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread mhysnm1964
o: mhysnm1...@gmail.com Cc: Tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error. Discussion inline below. On 13Jan2019 13:16, mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: >I am hoping someone can help with the below error using Python3.5 in >the Windows 10 bash environment. I found the below link which

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hi, On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 8:34 AM wrote: > description.sort() > TypeError: unorderable types: float() < str() So, fairly obviously, we can't test whether a float is less than a string. Any more than we can tell if a grapefruit is faster than a cheetah. So there must be items in description

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread Peter Otten
mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: > Issue, following error is generated after trying to sort a list of > strings. > > description.sort() > TypeError: unorderable types: float() < str() Consider >>> descriptions = ["foo", "bar", 123, 3.14, 42, 200.1, "0"] >>> sorted(descriptions) Traceback (most recen

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 01:16:10PM +1100, mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: > Issue, following error is generated after trying to sort a list of strings. > > description.sort() > TypeError: unorderable types: float() < str() That tells you that you don't have a list of strings. You have a list of str

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
Discussion inline below. On 13Jan2019 13:16, mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: I am hoping someone can help with the below error using Python3.5 in the Windows 10 bash environment. I found the below link which I am not sure if this is related to the issue or not. As I don't fully understand the answ

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 13/01/2019 02:16, mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: > Issue, following error is generated after trying to sort a list of strings. > > description.sort() > TypeError: unorderable types: float() < str() Please send the complete error message not just the last line summary. There is a lot of potentia

[Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread mhysnm1964
Hello everyone. I am hoping someone can help with the below error using Python3.5 in the Windows 10 bash environment. I found the below link which I am not sure if this is related to the issue or not. As I don't fully understand the answer. https://github.com/SethMMorton/natsort/issues/7 I