Sorting list (maybe stupid)

[Eric Brunel]

Charl P. Botha wrote:

> In article <slrnagbh7m.h03.jarvin24 at lehtori.cc.tut.fi>, Jarvinen Petri
> wrote:
>> I have a problem and can't solve it:
>> 
>> There is lines of text like:
>> 
>> 2. Header2
>> 1. Header1
>> 102. Header102
>> 
>> and so on...
>> 
>> And I need to sort them according to the number (1,2,3,4...)
> 
> Put each line in a tuple, first element the number, second element the
> header.  Make a list of these tuples, and then use list.sort() with a comp
> function that compares using the first element in the tuple.

I think it's useless. Just try:

l = [(102, 'foo'), (2, 'bar'), (1, 'baz')]
l.sort()
print l

Apparently, the default sort function already sorts tuples according to 
their first element...
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