[Tutor] set key to sort

[Kent Johnson]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:51 AM, prasad rao <prasadaraon50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hell
> I got a problem sorting a list of lists.
> ml=
> [[112, 'p'], [114, 'r'], [97, 'a'], [115, 's'], [97, 'a'], [100, 'd'], [97,
> 'a'], [114, 'r'], [97, 'a'], [111, 'o']]
> sorted(ml,key=?)
> How can I formulate a key to sort based on the first element of each list.

Sorting is by default a lexicographic sort, it will sort on the first
element using the second to break ties in the first, etc.

If you really want to sort *only* on the first item (perhaps the
second items are not comparable) then use key=operator.itemgetter(0).
More explanation here:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/kk/00007.html
http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting

> sorting list of lists might have been discussed in the resent past.
> Is there a repository of all threads of this list on the web.

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home page. From there you can click to the archives.

Kent

> thank you
> prasad
>
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