How to sort this kind of list easily?

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Ben Last wrote:
>>>From: Anthony Baxter, in response to BruceKL WhoH
>>>list.sort sorts tuples by first argument, then second &c. If you want a
>>>custom sort order, look at the decorate-sort-undecorate pattern.
>> 
>> 
>> Or if you want to sort only on your Id, use a lambda:
>> l.sort(lambda x,y: cmp(x[0],y[0]))
>> 
>> To force sorting on just the nth element of the tuples, replace 0 with n in
>> the above.
>> 
>> b
>> 
> If you are using 2.4 (now in beta), you could also do:
> 
> lst.sort(key=lambda element:element[1])

_If_ you are using 2.4, better use:

lst.sort(key=operator.itemgetter(1))

Reinhold

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