On Jul 21, 8:58 am, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > kak...@gmail.com, 21.07.2010 14:36: > > > From the subject of my message it's clear that i get an xml message > > from a socket, > > Not at all, but now that you say it... > > > > > i parse it and the result is a list like the one that > > follows: > > ID_Col > > 4 Server ak ip OFFLINE > > > 29 Server and2 ip OFFLINE > > > 5 Proxy l34e ip OFFLINE > > > 6 Proxy barc ip ONLINE > > > 41 Proxy proxy-2 ip ONLINE > > > 53 Server server-4 ip ONLINE > > > 52 Server server-3 ip ONLINE > > Doesn't look like a Python list to me... > > > What i want is to print this list sorted by ID_Col? > > Any Suggestions? > > Assuming that the above is supposed to represent a list of tuples, you can > use the .sort() method on the list and pass operator.itemgetter(0) as 'key' > argument (see the sort() method and the operator module). > > Stefan
No it is not a Python list at all. This the way i print the parsed items 'like a list'. But i want them to be sorted. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list