As an FYI, nosferatu-man's and my solutions are better than S. Carton's, but require Python 2.4. The "key" parameter to sort/sorted does a "Decorate-Sort-Undecorate"[1] automatically, whereas the ...

Sorting a Python list. Python provides two ways to sort lists. ... What’s more, there is a separate array type in Python. The Python array is designed to emulate the behavior of an array in C, ...