sorting tuples...

[nidhog at gmail.com]

Thank you very much.

I'll look into this immediately.

I edited my code earlier and came up with stringing the groups
(200501202010, sender, message_string) into one string delimited by
'%%%'.

I could then sort the messages with the date string at the beginning as
the one being sorted with the big string in its "tail" being sorted
too.

200501202010%%%sender%%%message_string
200502160821%%%sender%%%message_string
...

After sorting this list of long strings, I could then split them up
using the '%%%' delimiter and arrange them properly for output.

It's crude but at least I achieve what I wanted done.

But both posters gave good advices, if not a bit too advanced for me.
I'll play with them and keep tweaking my code.

Thanks so much!

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/nh