Re: Custom alphabetical sort

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From	Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com>
Date	2012-12-27 01:13 +0000
Subject	Re: Custom alphabetical sort
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On 25 December 2012 06:18, Dave Angel <d@davea.name> wrote:

> On 12/24/2012 06:19 PM, Pander Musubi wrote:

 <snip>

>  > Thanks very much for this efficient code.
>
> Perhaps you missed Ian Kelly's correction of Thomas Bach's approach:
>
> d = { k: v for v, k in enumerate(cs) }
>
>
> def collate(x):
>     return list(map(d.get, x))
>
> sorted(data, key=collate)
>
> I'd use Ian Kelly's approach.

Well, he was first to it :P

> It's not only more compact,

I take offence* here! The only difference was "list(map(d.get, x))" vs
"[hashindex[s] for s in string]" (11 chars) and my longer naming scheme. If
you really care enough about those to sway your judgement, shame on you! ;)

* Not really

it shouldn't
> give an exception for a character not in the table.

That was a choice, not a bug. I didn't want undefined behaviour, so I
thought I'd leave it to crash on "bad" input than sort in a way that may be
unwanted. Even Ian Kelly gave this as way of coding it.

> At least, not for
> Python 2.x.  I'm not sure about Python 3, since it can give an exception
> comparing None to int.

Please not that this post was done in humour (but with truth) to delay
sleep. No offence to Ian or you intended ;).

Happy After-Christmas!

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Re: Custom alphabetical sort Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-12-24 11:18 -0500
  Re: Custom alphabetical sort Pander Musubi <pander.musubi@gmail.com> - 2012-12-24 08:40 -0800
    Re: Custom alphabetical sort Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-12-24 12:40 -0500
      Re: Custom alphabetical sort Pander Musubi <pander.musubi@gmail.com> - 2012-12-24 09:53 -0800
      Re: Custom alphabetical sort Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-12-24 18:07 +0000
  Re: Custom alphabetical sort Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2012-12-24 18:12 +0000
    Re: Custom alphabetical sort Pander Musubi <pander.musubi@gmail.com> - 2012-12-24 15:19 -0800
      Re: Custom alphabetical sort Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-12-25 01:18 -0500
      Re: Custom alphabetical sort Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2012-12-27 01:13 +0000
    Re: Custom alphabetical sort Pander Musubi <pander.musubi@gmail.com> - 2012-12-24 15:19 -0800
  Re: Custom alphabetical sort Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-24 22:57 +0000

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