Sorting a list created from a parsed xml message

[Stefan Behnel]

kaklis at gmail.com, 21.07.2010 14:36:
> From the subject of my message it's clear that i get an xml message
> from a socket,

Not at all, but now that you say it...


> i parse it and the result is a list like the one that
> follows:
> ID_Col
> 4 	  Server 	ak 	        ip 	OFFLINE
>
> 29      Server 	and2 	ip 	OFFLINE
>
> 5 	  Proxy 	l34e         ip	OFFLINE
>
> 6  	  Proxy 	barc 	        ip 	ONLINE
>
> 41 	  Proxy 	proxy-2 	ip 	ONLINE
>
> 53 	  Server 	server-4 	ip	ONLINE
>
> 52 	  Server 	server-3 	ip 	ONLINE

Doesn't look like a Python list to me...


> What i want is to print this list sorted by ID_Col?
> Any Suggestions?

Assuming that the above is supposed to represent a list of tuples, you can 
use the .sort() method on the list and pass operator.itemgetter(0) as 'key' 
argument (see the sort() method and the operator module).

Stefan