[Tutor] Sorting Nested Lists
Sarma Tangirala
tvssarma.omega9 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 13:31:37 CET 2012
Hi list,
I was banging my head about a pythonic way of doing the following,
Given a nested list, how do I sort the uppermost list based on one key and
when a special condition occurs a sort on another key should be performed?
For example, [[1,2], [2, 2], [3, 2], [4, 0]] would be sorted, in my example
as, [[4, 0], [3, 2], [2, 2], [1, 2]]. That is, sort on the second value and
in case they are equal, reverse sort on the first value.
I tried doing this using sorted and using a custom cmp function but not
sure about how to define the cmp function.
--
Sarma Tangirala,
Class of 2012,
Department of Information Science and Technology,
College of Engineering Guindy - Anna University
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