<div>&gt;&gt;&gt; import operator</div><div>&gt;&gt;&gt; sorted(z1, key=operator.itemgetter(2,0,1))</div><div>[[34, 44, &#39;1011&#39;], [40, 20, &#39;1011&#39;], [40, 60, &#39;1011&#39;], [10, 30, &#39;1013&#39;], [50, 50, &#39;1013&#39;]]</div>
<div>&gt;&gt;&gt; </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Alex</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Vikram <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kpguy@rediffmail.com">kpguy@rediffmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Suppose i have this:<br>
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<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; z1 = [[34,44,&#39;1011&#39;],[40,60,&#39;1011&#39;],[50,50,&#39;1013&#39;],[40,20,&#39;1011&#39;],[10,30,&#39;1013&#39;]]<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; z1<br>
[[34, 44, &#39;1011&#39;], [40, 60, &#39;1011&#39;], [50, 50, &#39;1013&#39;], [40, 20, &#39;1011&#39;], [10, 30, &#39;1013&#39;]]<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; for i in z1:<br>
         print i<br>
<br>
         <br>
[34, 44, &#39;1011&#39;]<br>
[40, 60, &#39;1011&#39;]<br>
[50, 50, &#39;1013&#39;]<br>
[40, 20, &#39;1011&#39;]<br>
[10, 30, &#39;1013&#39;]<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; <br>
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how do i sort the nested list z1 so as to obtain:<br>
<br>
bla = [[34,44,&#39;1011&#39;],[40,20,&#39;1011&#39;],[40,60,&#39;1011&#39;],[10,30,&#39;1013&#39;],[50,50,&#39;1013&#39;]]<br>
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