Sorting a list

[Peter Otten]

DFS wrote:

> On 4/3/2016 3:31 PM, Peter Otten wrote:

>>>>> from operator import itemgetter as get
>>>>> print "\n".join("{1} {0}".format(*p) for p in sorted(
>> ... sorted(colCounts, key=get(1)), key=get(0), reverse=True))
> 
> Kind of clunky looking.  Is that why don't you recommend it?

That, and you produce two intermediate lists and an intermediate string. For 
larger input data this may produce significant overhead.

>> You could also cheat and use
>>
>> lambda v: (-v[0], v[1])
>>
>> and a single sorted().
> 
> That works well.  Why is it 'cheating'?

On second thought it isn't ;)