Aldarion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how to sorted by summed itemgetter(1)? > maybe sorted(items,key = lambda x:sum(x[1])) > can't itemgetter be used here?
You really want function composition, e.g. sorted(items, key=sum*itemgetter(1)) where * is a composition operator (doesn't exist in Python). You could write: def compose(f,g): return lambda *a,**k: f(g(*a,**k)) and then use sorted(items, key=compose(sum,itemgetter(1))) or spell it out inline: sorted(items, key=lambda x: sum(itemgetter(1)(x))) I'd probably do something like: snd = itemgetter(1) # I use this all the time sorted(items, key=lambda x: sum(snd(x))) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list