Question

In newer Python, I am able to use the sorted function and easily sort out a list of strings according to their last few chars as such:

lots_list = ['anything']

print sorted(lots_list, key=returnlastchar)

def returnlastchar(s):     
    return s[10:] 

How can I implement the above to lots_list.sort() in older Python (2.3)?

” Error: When I tried using sorted(), the global name sorted is not defined. ”

Answer 1

I don’t have python 2.3 on hand, however, according to this post
Sorting a list of lists by item frequency in Python 2.3 http://docs.python.org/release/2.3/lib/typesseq-mutable.html
this method should also works for you.

def mycmp(a, b):
    return cmp(a[10:], b[10:])

lots_list.sort(mycmp)