Re: [Plone-Users] Sorting an array on multiple fields

[robert r. <ro...@re...>]

google's first entry for  "python sort":
http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting
robert
espprojects schrieb:
> I am trying to sort an array on multiple fields and am struggling to get the
> correct order.
> 
> The array contains (Name, Date, Other stuff ...) and I want to sort it in
> ascending name order, but where there is more than one entry with the same
> name then use descending date order. Ie
> 
> Alan 3/12/2008
> Alan 3/11/2008
> Alan 3/10/2008
> Betty 11/12/2008
> etc ...
> 
> If I use myArray.sort() then it sorts it in the correct name order but in
> ascending date order rather than descending.
> 
> Is there a simple way to do this?