[docs] [issue35956] Sort documentation could be improved for complex sorting

Raymond Hettinger report at bugs.python.org
Sun Feb 10 20:39:54 EST 2019


Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

It seems to me that the sorting howto covers this topic.

If I'm reading the OP's task correctly, it isn't complex at all:

   points.sort(key=attrgetter('x', 'y'))  # x is primary key; y is secondary

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