How to sort a list of lists by a specific index of the inner list?
python, sorting
Solution
This is a job for itemgetter
>>> from operator import itemgetter
>>> L=[[0, 1, 'f'], [4, 2, 't'], [9, 4, 'afsd']]
>>> sorted(L, key=itemgetter(2))
[[9, 4, 'afsd'], [0, 1, 'f'], [4, 2, 't']]
It is also possible to use a lambda function here, however the lambda function is slower in this simple case
Problem
I have a list of lists. For example, ``` [ [0,1,'f'], [4,2,'t'], [9,4,'afsd'] ] ``` If I wanted to sort the outer list by the string field of the inner lists, how would you do that in python?