Re: [Zope] sort in python script dynamically?

Let me get back to a related issue regarding sorting, if you permit. As we learned in previous mails, it is simple to sort a list by any of its fields if they can be indexed like this: def sort_by_index(self, list, i): list.sort(lambda a, b: cmp(a[i], b[i])) list = [[x, y], [y, z]] sort_by_index(list) But how can one sort by field names (= attributes of an object) as parameters??? The following certainly does not work! def sort_by_field(self, list, f): list.sort(lambda a, b: cmp(a.f, b.f)) x = myObject(i, j, k) y = myObject(l, m, n) list = [x, y] sort_by_field(list) How can an attribute name (a string) be translated in the actual attribute? thanks for your help André