Hi, I've had a look at http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting, but am not sure if I can get the operator.itemgetter to do what I want for my particular need. I'm also not sure why creating my own cmp for pulling tuple parts out and passing it to a list sort doesn't just work.
I'm sure this stuff is old hat to many on this list. Suggestions happily accepted. Suppose I've got a list like: l = [(-.3,(4,3)),(.2,(5,1)),(.10,(3,2))] and I want to sort on the 2nd item in the 2nd tuple. I've tried things like: cmp = lambda x,y : x[1][1] > y[1][1] l.sort(cmp=cmp) but l isn't then changed in place. Using sorted(l,operator.itemgetter(1)) behaves as I'd expect, but I really want something like operator.itemgetter(1).itemgetter(1), which (understandably) causes a syntax error. Thx, --b -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
