Sorting a List of Lists

[Thomas Nelson]

On Jan 30, 5:55 pm, apoth... at gmail.com wrote:
> I can't seem to get this nailed down and I thought I'd toss it out
> there as, by gosh, its got to be something simple I'm missing.
>
> I have two different database tables of events that use different
> schemas. I am using python to collate these records for display. I do
> this by creating a list of lists that look roughly like this:
>
> events = [['Event URL as String', 'Event Title as String ', Event Date
> as Datetime], ...]
>
> I then thought I'd just go events.sort(lambda x,y: x[2]<y[2]) and call
> it a day. That didn't work. But then lamda functions like to be very
> simple, maybe object subscripts aren't allowed (even though I didn't
> get an error). So I wrote a comparison function that looks much as you
> would expect:
>
> def date_compare(list1,
> list2):
>     x = list1[2]
>     y = list2[2]
>     if
> x>y:
>         return
> 1
>     elif
> x==y:
>         return
> 0
>     else: #
> x<y
>         return -1
>
> But as before sorting with this function returns None.
>
> What have I overlooked?

All sorts return None.  the sort is in place.  Check your list post-
sort.

THN