Sorting a list

[John Salerno]

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

>> One more thing. What if I want them in reverse chronological order? I 
>> tried reverse() but that seemed to put them in reverse alphabetical 
>> order based on the second element of the tuple (not the year).
> 
> Really ?
> 
>  >>> lines = [('1995', 'aaa'), ('1997', 'bbb'), ('1995', 'bbb'), 
> ('1997', 'aaa'), ('1995', 'ccc'), ('1996', 'ccc'), ('1996', 'aaa')]
>  >>> lines.sort()
>  >>> lines
> [('1995', 'aaa'), ('1995', 'bbb'), ('1995', 'ccc'), ('1996', 'aaa'), 
> ('1996', 'ccc'), ('1997', 'aaa'), ('1997', 'bbb')]
>  >>> lines.reverse()
>  >>> lines
> [('1997', 'bbb'), ('1997', 'aaa'), ('1996', 'ccc'), ('1996', 'aaa'), 
> ('1995', 'ccc'), ('1995', 'bbb'), ('1995', 'aaa')]
>  >>>

Oh I didn't sort then reverse, I just replaced sort with reverse. Maybe 
that's why!