Re: Sorting a multidimensional array by multiple keys

Peter Otten <__peter__@xxxxxx> wrote:

Duncan Booth wrote:

from operator import itemgetter
data.sort(key=itemgetter(0))
data.sort(key=itemgetter(1))
data.sort(key=itemgetter(4))
data.sort(key=itemgetter(3))

Or, in Python 2.5:

data.sort(key=itemgetter(3, 4, 1, 0))

Thanks, I'd forgotten itemgetter had that strangley assymmetric behaviour
of returning either a single value or a tuple.
.