#🔒 How to bubble sort words in a list?

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frozen orbit
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Im trying to bubble sort this list but no matteer how i try, i still cant get it?
list = ['Banana', 'Apple, 'Pineapple', Mango']

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frozen orbit
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waiittt

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this is the correct codes right?

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frozen orbit
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okok

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reall final question

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so lets say what if i want to sort words

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but

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its an object

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like the list stores the object

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and i need to use the getter method to access the words for sorting?

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Okay, following so far

frozen orbit
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omg

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wait

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so booklist is the list im storing my objects

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the thing is i want to sort the publisher in this object in ascending order

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is it still the same as before?

whole quarry
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If the objects are a class you made, I would add the magic method __lt__ so that obj1 < obj2 will be a valid statement, and then run it through the same sort algorithm

frozen orbit
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okok

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Is there a reason you're using a custom written bubble sort instead of sorted() or list.sort()?

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homework lemon_angrysad

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i wld use sorted() if i can tbh

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Okay, yeah, I see people writing their own sort algorithms for homework all the time, just not usually part of a larger project

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# frozen orbit is there another way to do this without this magic method?

A bunch. If you were allowed to use .sort/sorted then you could use the key= argument, but sounds like that is out. If you made your class a dataclass, you could add an order=, though that just a roundabout way of defining the __lt__ method. Other than that, you may have to make a custom version of your sort algorithm where you change the if a > b line to something that works with your objects.

frozen orbit
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this is my custojm version....

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its nt working.....

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lemon_angrysad pls helppp

whole quarry
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I'm confused by the .index stuff. It should look exactly like the other bubble sort except the if line should be the only line that needs changing.

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OHH

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okok wai

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i forgot to show another party

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part*

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this

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i tried getting the index of each letter

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so tht i can compare

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ik its dumb

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i thot > or < only works on int type

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OMG

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it workss

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OMGGG

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thank you soo muchh

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i hv been stressing this for like 3hours

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omggg

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thank you thank you

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I'm not sure I like that else: break in there, you sure its right?

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oh

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ya

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thts for the prev code

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lemme remove it

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shld it be else: pass?

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oh

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does it just ignore if x !> y?

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Else pass does the same thing as just not having an else

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oh yaa

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ye

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but hey

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how do u do that

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special code thingy

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the j

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`j`

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'j'

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backticks

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by your ~

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j

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OHHH

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dam

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btw are you paid to help us?

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or is it an interests

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lemon_sweat itsok

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i was jst curious why ure so helpful

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thanks again for helping me

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