newbie question

[Justin Shaw]

Is this what you mean?  Note j's range.

> a=[('a',1),('c',5),('k',5),('o',3), ('i',3)]
> for i in range(0, len(a)-1):
>     for j in range(i+1, len(a)):
>         if a[i][1]>a[j][1]:
>             print a
>             print '    swap', i, j, a[i], a[j]
>             a[i],a[j]=a[j],a[i]
>             print '   ', a
> print a

RESULT
[('a', 1), ('c', 5), ('k', 5), ('o', 3), ('i', 3)]
    swap 1 3 ('c', 5) ('o', 3)
    [('a', 1), ('o', 3), ('k', 5), ('c', 5), ('i', 3)]
[('a', 1), ('o', 3), ('k', 5), ('c', 5), ('i', 3)]
    swap 2 4 ('k', 5) ('i', 3)
    [('a', 1), ('o', 3), ('i', 3), ('c', 5), ('k', 5)]
[('a', 1), ('o', 3), ('i', 3), ('c', 5), ('k', 5)]