[Tutor] Bundle help!

[Bill Burns]

[Sara Johnson]
> Sorry to be so confusing.  Just realized a dumb mistake I made.  It 
> doesn't need to be resorted alphabetically and numerically.  I need one 
> list alphabetical and one numerical.
>  
>  
>  (Alphabetical) List 1, [('Fred', 20), ('Joe', 90), ('Kent', 50), 
> ('Sara', 80)]
>   
> (Numerical) List 2,  [('Fred', 20), ('Kent', 50), ('Sara', 80) ('Joe', 90)]
>  

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I didn't keep track of the thread very well, so I don't know if you have
one single list or two separate lists?? I'll assume you have a single
list and you want to create two new lists sorted differently:

<code>
# Single 'Master List'.
masterList = [('Sara', 80), ('Kent', 50), ('Joe', 90), ('Fred', 20)]

# Create a list for our alpha sort.
alphaList = list(masterList)

# Simply calling sort() will sort it alphabetically.
alphaList.sort()
print 'Alphabetical List: ', alphaList

def sortByNum(tup):
     # Helper function.
     return tup[1]

# Create a list for our numerical sort.
numList = list(masterList)

# sort() can take an optional key parameter, which allows us to define
# our own sorting method. This sort() calls the sortByNum() function,
# which I've defined to only look at the 2nd item in the tuple (the
# numerical portion.
numList.sort(key=sortByNum)
print 'Numerical List: ', numList

# Or you could also use a lambda in place of the separate
# function def, which would eliminate sortByNum() completely.
#~ numList.sort(key=lambda tup: tup[1])
#~ print 'Numerical List: ', numList

# And another method using the operator module...
#~ import operator
#~ numList.sort(key=operator.itemgetter(1))
#~ print 'Numerical List: ', numList
</code>

HTH,

Bill