Question

I’d like to use the somelist.sort() method to do this if possible.

I have a list containing objects, all objects have a member variable resultType that is an integer. I’d like to sort the list using this number.

How do I do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

somelist.sort(key = lambda x: x.resultType)

Here’s another way to do the same thing that you will often see used:

import operator
s.sort(key = operator.attrgetter('resultType'))

You might also want to look at sorted if you haven’t seen it already. It doesn’t modify the original list – it returns a new sorted list.