*23 Jan 2015* <div class="posthaven-post-body"> Straight from the PythonInfo Wiki: \>\>\> import operator \>\>\> L = \[('c', 2), ('d', 1), ('a', 4), ('b', 3)\] \>\>\> map(operator.itemgetter(0), L) \['c', 'd', 'a', 'b'\] \>\>\> map(operator.itemgetter(1), L) \[2, 1, 4, 3\] \>\>\> sorted(L, key=operator.itemgetter(1)) \[('d', 1), ('c', 2), ('b', 3), ('a', 4)\] </div> [[tags/code_snipplets|code_snipplets]] [[tags/software_development|software_development]] [[tags/tips|tips]]