Lie Ryan wrote:
if you have data like this:
mylist = [
[3, 4, 3, 2, 1],
[2, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[4, 2, 2, 1, 2],
[1, 3, 1, 1, 1],
]
you can use mylist.sort(key=lambda x: x[0])
sorted(mylist, key=lambda x: x[0]) works as well if you need a new list
I have a further question. If I want to sort the list not based on first
element, but the second, third and so on, then using the lambda works
nicely.
But for sorting the list with the first element as key, I tried it using
just mylist.sort() without the lambda, and its working also. Then why
use the lambda?
Sorry, I'm using python3. so maybe it won't work on python2 with just
mylist.sort()?
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