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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:32:17 -0700
From: Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com>
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:30440

Apparently gmail hates me and my last response didn't get through:

a = ['awefawef', 'awefawfsf', 'awefsdf', 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz', 
'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz', 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz']
f = filter(lambda s: s == a[-1], a)
l = sorted(lst[:-len(f)]) + f

Now, not 100% sure about efficiency over large sizes of a, but that's a 
naive stab at it anyway.

-- 
Demian Brecht
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