ian.brady1 at gmail.com writes: > It moves right while keeping sorted order to the left. This is the > new stable sort in 2.5. >>> b ['1 one 2', '1 one 1', '1 two 1', '1 one 0', '1 xx 0'] >>> sorted(b,key=lambda x: x.split()) ['1 one 0', '1 one 1', '1 one 2', '1 two 1', '1 xx 0']