Hi, I have an array of arrays in the form of list = [[3,'fork',0.3,1],[2,'fork,0.1,2],[3,'exec',0.2,2]]
The in-built sort(),list.sort() sorts on the first element, if the first elts are equal then it sorts on the second elt and so on...But i really dont want to search on the second elt if the first elts are equal...the 1-D lists shud be left in the same position i.e. i want the sorted list to be [[2,'fork',0.1,2],[3,'fork,0.3,1],[3,'exec',0.2,2]] and not [[2,'fork',0.1,2],[3,'exec',0.2,2],[3,'fork,0.3,1]]. I tried the following code: def mysort(x,y): return x[0]-y[0] list.sort(mysort) This somehow seems to work for a small subset of my input...but not for my real input which has more than 2000 sub-lists(and so obviously i cant trace each pass..). Can someone tell me what i'm missing? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list