Question

I have a list as follows.

[(5,), (2,), (4,), (1,), (3,), (6,), (7,), (8,)]

How can I sort the list to get

[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]

or

[8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1]

?

Answer 1

Convert the list of tuples into a list of integers, then sort it:

thelist = [(5,), (2,), (4,), (1,), (3,), (6,), (7,), (8,)]

sortedlist = sorted([x[0] for x in thelist])

print sortedlist

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