On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Adam Bark <adam.jt...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14/09/10 01:11, Pete O'Connell wrote: >> >> theList = ["21 trewuuioi","3zxc","134445"] >> print sorted(theList) >> >> Hi, the result of the sorted list above doesn't print in the order I >> want. Is there a straight forward way of getting python to print >> ['3zxc','21 trewuuioi','134445'] >> rather than ['134445', '21 trewuuioi', '3zxc']? >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated >> Pete >> > > print sorted(theList)[::-1] > > as list indices go [start:end:step] what this means is the whole list > starting from the end and working backwards. > You can also have a look at reversed() if you want an iterator or you can > use theList.reverse() if you want to reverse in place ie. > >>>> l = ["21 trewuuioi","3zxc","134445"] >>>> l.reverse() >>>> print l > ['134445', '3zxc', '21 trewuuioi'] > > > HTH > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
Thanks from me too, because I kept getting None when trying to directly print theList.reverse() >>> theList = ["21 trewuuioi","3zxc","134445"] >>> theList.reverse() >>> print theList ['134445', '3zxc', '21 trewuuioi'] >>> print theList.reverse() None >>> print type(theList.reverse()) <type 'NoneType'> >>> print type(theList) <type 'list'> >>> _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
