QPID-529: Further adjustment for python 2.3

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/trunk@1069752 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/qpid/tests/src/py/qpid_tests/broker_0_10/priority.py b/qpid/tests/src/py/qpid_tests/broker_0_10/priority.py
index ddfdd818c6..3651a1218b 100644
--- a/qpid/tests/src/py/qpid_tests/broker_0_10/priority.py
+++ b/qpid/tests/src/py/qpid_tests/broker_0_10/priority.py
@@ -222,14 +222,16 @@ def priority_level(value, levels):
 
 def sorted_(msgs, key=None, reverse=False):
     """
-    Workaround lack of sorted builtin function in python 2.3
+    Workaround lack of sorted builtin function in python 2.3 and lack
+    of keyword arguments to list.sort()
     """
     temp = msgs
-    temp.sort(cmp=key_to_cmp(key), reverse=reverse)
+    temp.sort(key_to_cmp(key, reverse=reverse))
     return temp
 
-def key_to_cmp(key):
+def key_to_cmp(key, reverse=False):
     if key:
-        return lambda a, b: cmp(key(a), key(b))
+        if reverse: return lambda a, b: cmp(key(b), key(a))
+        else: return lambda a, b: cmp(key(a), key(b))  
     else:
         return None