Case-Insensitive Sorting of Multi-Dimensional Lists

[Ben Finney]

mosscliffe <mcl.office at googlemail.com> writes:

> I have tried the following, for a one dimensional list and it works,
> but I can not get my head around this lambda. How would this be
> written, without the lamda ?
>
> mylist = ['Fred','bill','PAUL','albert']
>
> mylist.sort(key=lambda el: el.lower())

Here's a hint:

    >>> "FoO".lower()
    'foo'
    >>> str.lower("FoO")
    'foo'

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Ben Finney