Question

I have a similar question to this one but instead my tuple contains lists, as follows:

mytuple = (
 ["tomato", 3],
 ["say", 2],
 ["say", 5],
 ["I", 4],
 ["you", 1],
 ["tomato", 6],
)

What’s the most efficient way of sorting this?

Answer 1

You can get a sorted tuple easy enough:

>>> sorted(mytuple)
[['I', 4], ['say', 2], ['say', 5], ['tomato', 3], ['tomato', 6], ['you', 1]]

This will sort based on the items in the list. If the first two match, it compares the second, etc.

If you have a different criteria, you can provide a comparison function.

Updated: As a commenter noted, this returns a list. You can get another tuple like so:

>>> tuple(sorted(mytuple))
(['I', 4], ['say', 2], ['say', 5], ['tomato', 3], ['tomato', 6], ['you', 1])