Re: Sorting a multidimensional array by multiple keys

On Mar 31, 6:42 am, Rehceb Rotkiv <reh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(snipped)

As each line consists of 5 words, I would break up the data into an array
of five-field-arrays (Would you use lists or tuples or a combination in
Python?). The word "BUT" would be in the middle, with two fields/words
left and two fields/words right of it. I then want to sort this list by

- field 3
- field 4
- field 1
- field 0



import StringIO

buf = """
reaction is BUT by the
sodium , BUT it is
sea , BUT it is
this manner BUT the dissolved
pattern , BUT it is
rapid , BUT it is
""".lstrip()

mockfile = StringIO.StringIO(buf)

tokens = [ line.split() + [ line ] for line in mockfile ]
tokens.sort(key=lambda l: (l[3], l[4], l[1], l[0]))
for l in tokens:
print l[-1],


--
Hope this helps,
Steven

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