On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:51, prasad rao <prasadarao...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 list of lists might have been discussed in the resent past.
By default sort() will use the first value to sort so no key would be needed. Greets Sander _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor