Hello world! My goal is pretty simple: I want to split my HB rooms in two lists, one containing the smallest room (by floor area) and the other list containing the rest. I already managed to do it with a GhPython script plus some native list components, as you can see bellow. However, I was wonderi…

If I understand the original question correctly you are not looking for the area itself. You just want them sorted based on the area. In that case, I would use the key argument to make it easier. This single line should give you what you need: [image] a = sorted(x, key=lambda room: room.floor_are…

Hi! if you want to do it in pure ghpy: [image] For copy/paste: # make a container for what we want to interogate floor_area_list = [] # go through each list item and fill container with the desired for room in _rooms: floor_area_list.append(room.floor_area) # sort ascending: a = sorted(flo…

That’s pretty much what I was looking for, thank you for the help! But just to complement your answer, it should be noted that we must choose “List Access” for _rooms. Besides, since the initial goal was to get the rooms sorted by their floor_area, I decided to sort them by doing [x for _, x in sor…

[image] mostapha: key=lambda room: room.floor_area) What an elegant solution. Thank you a lot!

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How to sort rooms by floor area

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TrevorFedyna September 8, 2021, 12:38am 6

NICE!!