sorting a list of tupples

[John Roth]

"David Bear" <david.bear at asu.edu> wrote in message
news:m3ptgegrp6.fsf at moroni.pp.asu.edu...
> I have a list of tupples.  Each tupple has 3 items.  The first item is
> an integer.  I'd like to sort the list(of tupples), based on the first
> element of the tupple.  I thought about stringifying the tupples, then
sorting
> those, but thought there must be a better way.  any idea's?

<list>.sort() should do the job, as long as you want the result
to be a list in ascending order by the value of the first element
of the tuple.

John Roth

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