how to sort tuples of basis of numbers?

Hi,

I have some problem with the display of my database.

I have a huge data where the tuples have multiple elements like 3 or 4
e.g.
[('air', 456, 'orange'),('ball', 789, 'yellow'),('cat', 123, 'blue' ),('dog', 159, 'red')]
So the problem is they are sorted by the alphabets for the first element which is a text(character),
The problem is I want the tuples to be sorted on the basis of the second element.
I want to soft the elements for the numbers (2nd element).

Please help

Try this:
from opererator import itemgetter

Code:

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MY_SORTED_TUPLE = tuple(sorted(MY_TUPLE, key=itemgetter(1)))

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or without itemgetter:

Code:

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MY_SORTED_TUPLE = tuple(sorted(MY_TUPLE, key=lambda item: item[1]))

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I hope this helps.

Hi,

I think you need to go through this document here in the webpage at this site.
http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books...s/ch32s03.html

I hope this will help you.