Sorting a list depending of the indexes of another sorted list

[babui]

On 21 ene, 08:41, Santiago  Romero <srom... at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi ...
>
>  I have the following DNS MX records info:
>
> domain.com
> preference 10 host mx1.domain.com
> preference 30 host anotherhost.domain.com
> preference 20 host mx2.domain.com

>  And finally ... do you think there is a better python structure to
> store this data and sort it in a more easy way?

Why don't you use a list of tuples?

L = [ (10, "mx1.domain.com"), (30, "anotherhost.domain.com", (20,
"mx2.domain.com") ]

and L.sort() sorts the list !!!

Juan M. Gimeno
>  Thanks.