thanks for the reply. i should have been more specific in my question ;) the order in which 'other' is listed is not always the last item of the list as it is dependent on where in the CSV file it is included.
what i was trying to do is to take create the list of dictionary items and then find the item which has name=='other' and then put this as the last item in the list. so from this list http://pastie.org/1185974 how do i select the item name == 'other' and put it at the end of the list? On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com> wrote: > On 9/27/2010 1:22 PM Norman Khine said... > >> what is the correct way to ensure that {'industry': 'travel', 'name': >> 'other','value': MSG(u"Other")} is always added to the end of this >> list after all the items have been sorted? >> >> here is the code which returns this list: > > options.sort(key=itemgetter('name')) > return options > > So, to answer the question you ask above, you can do: > > options.sort(key=itemgetter('name')) > options.append({'industry':'travel', > 'name':'other','value':MSG(u"Other")} > return options > > But I don't think that's the question you're looking to get answered. > > I think you want "other" to be found only at the end and not elsewhere. > > Then you might try excluding other from options allowing the above to append > it to the end: > > for index, row in enumerate(topics.get_rows()): > if row[0] != 'other': > options.append({'name': row[0], 'value': MSG(row[1])}) > > HTH, > > Emile > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- ˙uʍop ǝpısdn p,uɹnʇ pןɹoʍ ǝɥʇ ǝǝs noʎ 'ʇuǝɯɐן sǝɯıʇ ǝɥʇ puɐ 'ʇuǝʇuoɔ ǝq s,ʇǝן ʇǝʎ %>>> "".join( [ {'*':'@','^':'.'}.get(c,None) or chr(97+(ord(c)-83)%26) for c in ",adym,*)&uzq^zqf" ] ) _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
