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[Rest2web-develop] problem with sort order of sections variable

[martin f k. <ma...@ma...>]

Hi there,

The sections variable is an OrderedDict. I am, however, confused as
to how it's ordered. I have files 1-6.txt (so 1.txt, 2.txt, ...,
6.txt), and they have titles with starting letters G,R,K,P,S,V
respectively. Yet, when I iterate sections, the order I get is
4,1,2,3,6,5 (P,G,R,K,V,S). So I guess neither filename nor title
actually play a role.

How can I then influence the sort order of the sections variable,
which is used e.g. by minibar.

Cheers,

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Re: [Rest2web-develop] problem with sort order of sections variable

[martin f k. <ma...@ma...>]

also sprach martin f krafft <ma...@ma...> [2006.11.08.1446 +0100]:
> How can I then influence the sort order of the sections variable,
> which is used e.g. by minibar.

To sort by filename (=3D=3D target), I used the following hack, but
there has to be a better way:

  <#
    def page_sorter(a, b):
      return cmp(a['target'], b['target'])

    sections[None]['pages'].sort(page_sorter)
    minibar(sections, intro=3D'', subsect=3DFalse)
  #>

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Re: [Rest2web-develop] problem with sort order of sections variable

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

martin f krafft wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> The sections variable is an OrderedDict. I am, however, confused as
> to how it's ordered. I have files 1-6.txt (so 1.txt, 2.txt, ...,
> 6.txt), and they have titles with starting letters G,R,K,P,S,V
> respectively. Yet, when I iterate sections, the order I get is
> 4,1,2,3,6,5 (P,G,R,K,V,S). So I guess neither filename nor title
> actually play a role.
>   
It *ought* to use the ordering you declare them in the restindex...

Fuzzyman
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> How can I then influence the sort order of the sections variable,
> which is used e.g. by minibar.
>
> Cheers,
>
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Re: [Rest2web-develop] problem with sort order of sections variable

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

Michael Foord wrote:
> martin f krafft wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>>
>> The sections variable is an OrderedDict. I am, however, confused as
>> to how it's ordered. I have files 1-6.txt (so 1.txt, 2.txt, ...,
>> 6.txt), and they have titles with starting letters G,R,K,P,S,V
>> respectively. Yet, when I iterate sections, the order I get is
>> 4,1,2,3,6,5 (P,G,R,K,V,S). So I guess neither filename nor title
>> actually play a role.
>>   
>>     
> It *ought* to use the ordering you declare them in the restindex...
>
>   
Sorry, I got confused. My answer was only partially helpful.

You can explicitly specify an order for files within a section using the 
'section-pages' keyword in the restindex.
   
    section-pages: section-name, page1, page2, page3

If you only use the default section within a directory then you can do :

    section-pages: , page1, page2, page3 

(Extra leading comma to specify the default section ordering.)

I use this feature a lot where I want to specify the order of pages - 
and it usually has little to do with page title or filename.

Fuzzyman
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> Fuzzyman
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/index2.shtml
>
>   
>> How can I then influence the sort order of the sections variable,
>> which is used e.g. by minibar.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>   
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>>
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Re: [Rest2web-develop] problem with sort order of sections variable

[martin f k. <ma...@ma...>]

also sprach Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...> [2006.11.08.1512 +010=
0]:
> You can explicitly specify an order for files within a section using the=
=20
> 'section-pages' keyword in the restindex.
>   =20
>     section-pages: section-name, page1, page2, page3
>=20
> If you only use the default section within a directory then you can do :
>=20
>     section-pages: , page1, page2, page3=20
>=20
> (Extra leading comma to specify the default section ordering.)
>=20
> I use this feature a lot where I want to specify the order of pages -=20
> and it usually has little to do with page title or filename.

Well, in my case it does, and I *hate* "explicit". So there's no
other way to make it sort by filename or title automatically?

Cheers,

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Re: [Rest2web-develop] problem with sort order of sections variable

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...> [2006.11.08.1512 +0100]:
>   
>> You can explicitly specify an order for files within a section using the 
>> 'section-pages' keyword in the restindex.
>>    
>>     section-pages: section-name, page1, page2, page3
>>
>> If you only use the default section within a directory then you can do :
>>
>>     section-pages: , page1, page2, page3 
>>
>> (Extra leading comma to specify the default section ordering.)
>>
>> I use this feature a lot where I want to specify the order of pages - 
>> and it usually has little to do with page title or filename.
>>     
>
> Well, in my case it does, and I *hate* "explicit". So there's no
> other way to make it sort by filename or title automatically?
>   
Nope, no-one has ever asked for it before. What sort of interface would 
you like ?

Fuzzyman
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Re: [Rest2web-develop] problem with sort order of sections variable

[martin f k. <ma...@ma...>]

also sprach Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...> [2006.11.08.1621 +010=
0]:
> Nope, no-one has ever asked for it before. What sort of interface would=
=20
> you like ?

How about the attribute name of the page variables, e.g. link-title?

Alternatively, a function could be passed as comparator. using
callable(), you can easily distinguish between the two. :)

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Re: [Rest2web-develop] problem with sort order of sections variable

[Gael V. <gae...@no...>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:26:27PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...> [2006.11.08.1621 =
+0100]:
> > Nope, no-one has ever asked for it before. What sort of interface wou=
ld=20
> > you like ?

> How about the attribute name of the page variables, e.g. link-title?

> Alternatively, a function could be passed as comparator. using
> callable(), you can easily distinguish between the two. :)

+1 ! I would like to use userdata on my pages that happen to be the
date. You can keep this use case in mind if you are going to create an
interface.

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Re: [Rest2web-develop] problem with sort order of sections variable

[Michael F. <ar...@vo...>]

martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...> [2006.11.08.1621 +0100]:
>   
>> Nope, no-one has ever asked for it before. What sort of interface would 
>> you like ?
>>     
>
> How about the attribute name of the page variables, e.g. link-title?
>
> Alternatively, a function could be passed as comparator. using
> callable(), you can easily distinguish between the two. :)
>   
Right. 'sections' is an ordered dictionary, ordered by the *sections*.

Each section. The 'pages' entry of each section is a list of 
dictionaries representing each page. This is what we want to order.

So the 'sort' method of 'sections' is used to sort the sections, not the 
pages.

What I have done is implemented a new method for 'sections': 'sortpages'

This is now in subversion. Docs below.

``sections`` has a method for sorting the pages contained in all the 
section dictionaries. By default the pages are sorted according to the 
``section-pages`` in the restindex. If you don't use section-pages, the 
ordering is arbitrary. The ``sortpages`` method allows you to sort the 
pages by ``link-title`` (alphabetical) or pass in a custom function to 
do the sorting. (The same sort of function you would pass to the Python 
``sort`` method of lists.)

    sections.sortpages(sortorder, section=True)

``sortorder`` can either be the string ``link-title`` or a custom function.

By default, calling ``sortpages`` will sort all the sections. 
Alternatively you can pass in a string (or None), to specify which 
section to sort.


What I haven't done yet is tested this. I'm part way through creating a 
test case and will probably complete it tomorrow.

Comments and bug reports welcomed. :-)

Michael
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Re: [Rest2web-develop] problem with sort order of sections variable

[martin f k. <ma...@ma...>]

also sprach Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...> [2006.11.08.1507 +010=
0]:
> It *ought* to use the ordering you declare them in the restindex...

Well, I am not doing anything in restindex. All the pages I want in
the minibar are in a subdirectory. There's no sectionlist or
section-pages anywhere, meaning that sections only has one item:
sections[None]. I actually care about the sorting of
sections[None]['pages'].

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Re: [Rest2web-develop] problem with sort order of sections variable

[Michael F. <ar...@vo...>]

martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...> [2006.11.08.1621 +0100]:
>   
>> Nope, no-one has ever asked for it before. What sort of interface would 
>> you like ?
>>     
>
> How about the attribute name of the page variables, e.g. link-title?
>
> Alternatively, a function could be passed as comparator. using
> callable(), you can easily distinguish between the two. :)
>   
Ok, I'll work on this for the next release.

Fuzzyman
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Re: [Rest2web-develop] problem with sort order of sections variable

[martin f k. <ma...@ma...>]

also sprach Michael Foord <ar...@vo...> [2006.11.08.2338 +0100=
]:
> Ok, I'll work on this for the next release.

You are seriously competing for being my favourite upstream, huh? :)

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