On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:51 AM, prasad rao <prasadarao...@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. Click the link at the bottom of each email to get to the tutor list home page. From there you can click to the archives. Kent > thank you > prasad > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
