Sorting of list containing tuples

[Christoph Haas]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 12:38:55PM -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Ronny Mandal <ronnyma at math.uio.no> writes:
> > And now I want to sort l reverse by the second element in the tuple,
> > i.e the result should ideally be:
> > 
> >  l = [(6,5),(2,3),(3,2)]
> 
> sorted(l, key = lambda a: -a[1])

Or in Python <2.4:

l.sort(lambda x,y: x[1]-y[1])

(Although that's not technically perfect. Sort expect a function that
returns -1, 0 or 1. Here we get positive integers and negative
integers. YMMV.)

Kindly
 Christoph