On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:21 AM, spir wrote:
> Albert Sweigart dixit:
>
>> You need to specify an ordering function, in your case, len():
>
> By the way, is there any reason why the compare func parameter is called
> 'key'?
It is conventional terminology - the sort key is the value the sort is
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On Fr, 2009-12-04 at 08:21 +0100, spir wrote:
> By the way, is there any reason why the compare func parameter is called
> 'key'?
I'd guess because what you provide creates keys for the values in the
collection to sort them by. What else to call it? "Comparators" compare
two values, "hashes" don'
Albert Sweigart dixit:
> You need to specify an ordering function, in your case, len():
By the way, is there any reason why the compare func parameter is called 'key'?
Denis
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On 12/4/2009 1:22 PM, Kent Johnson wrote:
max() finds the 'largest' in sort order. Strings sort in dictionary
order so the max of a list strings will be the one that comes last in
dictionary order.\
To prevent confusion: When Kent said "dictionary order" it means
real-life dictionary, the thic
On Dec 3, 2009, at 18:25, Hugo Arts wrote:
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Tony Cappellini
wrote:
I have a list of 2300 strings.
When I call max() on the list, it returned an item with 37
characters. I am only passing 1 argument to max().
I know for a fact that the largest item has 57 c
max() for strings returns the largest string in an alphabetical sense.
So max(['z', 'aa']) would return 'z'.
You need to specify an ordering function, in your case, len():
max( ['z', ''], key=len)
...which will return '' because it is ordering by key.
-Al Sweigart
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Tony Cappellini wrote:
>
> I have a list of 2300 strings.
>
> When I call max() on the list, it returned an item with 37 characters. I am
> only passing 1 argument to max().
> I know for a fact that the largest item has 57 characters, and when I
> called mylist.ind
On 12/4/2009 12:08 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote:
What are the assumptions when calling max on a list of strings?
Does the list need to be sorted? In my case, the list is sorted.
max determines whether one is larger than the other with "<" operator.
max on a list of string will determine the last
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote:
>
> I have a list of 2300 strings.
>
> When I call max() on the list, it returned an item with 37 characters. I am
> only passing 1 argument to max().
> I know for a fact that the largest item has 57 characters, and when I
> called mylist.ind
I have a list of 2300 strings.
When I call max() on the list, it returned an item with 37 characters. I am
only passing 1 argument to max().
I know for a fact that the largest item has 57 characters, and when I called
mylist.index('my_57_character_string') the index was found.
Printing len(mylist
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