Sorting a list

[Ben Finney]

John Salerno <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> writes:

> Ah, so simply using sort() [on a list of tuples] will default to the
> first element of each tuple?

More precisely, list.sort will ask the elements of the list to compare
themselves. Those elements are tuples; two tuples will compare based
on comparison of their corresponding elements.

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Ben Finney