neocortex wrote: > Hello! > I am a newbie in Python. Recently, I get stuck with the problem of > sorting by two criteria. In brief, I have a two-dimensional list (for > a table or a matrix). Now, I need to sort by two columns, but I cannot > figure out how to do that. I read somewhere that it is possible to do: >>>> table.sort().sort() > but it does not work. > Can anyone help me with this? > PS: I am using Python under Ubuntu 6.06. > I think your best bet would be to google for "decorate sort undecorate" or "Schwartzian transform" unless the columns happen to be in the right order in the rows you want to sort.
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