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Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list

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dave於 2012年9月29日星期六UTC+8上午7時51分10秒寫道：
> more clearer, this is a more realistic use case:
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> ['awefawef', 'awefawfsf', 'awefsdf', 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz', 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz', 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz']
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> and the quantity of ''zzzzzzzzzzzzzz'' would be dynamic.
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> On Friday, September 28, 2012 4:46:15 PM UTC-7, Ian wrote:
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> > > What does x need to be to always be last on an ascending sort no matter what 'a' and 'b' are.... within reason... I am expecting 'a' and 'b' will be not longer than 10 char's long.... I tried making x = 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz' and believe it or not, this appears FIRST on the sort!!!
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> > To answer your question, though, if you want to force x to be last,
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I am thinking if it is helpful to preprocess an arbitrary
list first into some set of unique  ordered elements before a sort. 

Anyway lists are passed by references  to functions in python. 

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creating an artificial "last element" in sort list dave <davidreynon@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 16:39 -0700
  Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 17:45 -0600
    Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list dave <davidreynon@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 16:51 -0700
      Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-28 17:24 -0700
      Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-28 17:24 -0700
      Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 17:32 -0700
        Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 17:59 -0700
          Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 21:29 -0600
        Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 17:59 -0700
      Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list duncan smith <buzzard@invalid.invalid> - 2012-09-29 02:19 +0100
    Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list dave <davidreynon@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 16:51 -0700
  Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-28 18:42 -0700
  Re: creating an artificial "last element" in sort list Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-09-29 02:05 +0000

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