Sorting a list

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

John Salerno a écrit :
> Hi everyone. If I have a list of tuples, and each tuple is in the form:
> 
> (year, text) as in ('1995', 'This is a citation.')
> 
> How can I sort the list so that they are in chronological order based on 
> the year?

Calling sort() on the list should just work.

> Is there a better way to do this than making a list of tuples?

Depends...

> (So far I have a text file and on each line is a citation. I use an RE 
> to search for the year, then put this year and the entire citation in a 
> tuple, and add this tuple to a list.

You don't tell how these lines are formatted, but it's possible that you 
don't even need a regexp here. But wrt/ sorting, the list of tuples with 
the sort key as first element is one of the best solutions.