"praba kar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dear All, | | I have doubt regarding sorting. I have a list | that list have another list (eg) | | list = [[1234,'name1'],[2234,'name2'],[0432,'name3']]
-> Be careful, 0432 is octal notation for 282. | | I want to sort only numeric value having array field. | How I need to do for that. You may want use the decorate-sort-undecorate idiom. I othere words, you isolate the index you want to sort by, sort on the indices, than get rid of the indices again. Something like: def sortSeqOfSeqs(seq, idx): tmp = sorted([(elem[idx], elem) for elem in seq]) return [elem[1] for elem in tmp] seq = [[1234,'name1'],[2234,'name2'],[1432,'name3']] print sortSeqOfSeqs(seq, 0) # prints [[1234, 'name1'], [1432, 'name3'], [2234, 'name2']] # Or to sort by the name index print sortSeqOfSeqs(seq, 1) # prints [[1234, 'name1'], [2234, 'name2'], [1432, 'name3']] Is this what you we're looking for? -- Vincent Wehren | | with regards | Prabahar | | | | | | | ________________________________________________________________________ | Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online | Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list