On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:52:03 -0500, John Salerno wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >> You don't tell how these lines are formatted, but it's possible that you >> don't even need a regexp here. But wrt/ sorting, the list of tuples with >> the sort key as first element is one of the best solutions. > > Ah, so simply using sort() will default to the first element of each tuple?
No. It isn't that sort() knows about tuples. sort() knows how to sort a list by asking the list items to compare themselves, whatever the items are. Tuples compare themselves by looking at the first element (if any), and in the event of a tie going on to the second element, then the third, etc. -- Steven D'Aprano -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
