Sorting list (maybe stupid)

[Charl P. Botha]

In article <slrnagbh7m.h03.jarvin24 at lehtori.cc.tut.fi>, Järvinen Petri wrote:
> I have a problem and can't solve it:
> 
> There is lines of text like:
> 
> 2. Header2
> 1. Header1
> 102. Header102
> 
> and so on...
> 
> And I need to sort them according to the number (1,2,3,4...)

Put each line in a tuple, first element the number, second element the
header.  Make a list of these tuples, and then use list.sort() with a comp
function that compares using the first element in the tuple.

Here's some help:
>>> print [].sort.__doc__  
L.sort([cmpfunc]) -- sort *IN PLACE*; if given, cmpfunc(x, y) -> -1, 0, 1

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