Sorting list (maybe stupid)

[Chris Barker]

Eric Brunel wrote:

> l = [(102, 'foo'), (2, 'bar'), (1, 'baz')]
> l.sort()
> print l
> 
> Apparently, the default sort function already sorts tuples according to
> their first element...

Note that this only works if the rest of the elements in the tuples are
also sortable. In this case, they are strings, so they are.

-Chris




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