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Using methodcaller in a list sort - any examples anywhere?

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I want to sort a list of 'things' (they're fairly complex objects) by
the contents of one of the fields I can extract from the 'things'
using a Python function.

So I have a list L which is a list of objects of some sort.  I can
output the contents of a field in the list as follows:-

    for k in L:
        print k.get_property('family-name')

How can I sort the list first?  As I said it seems like a methodcaller
is the answer but I don't see how.  I want to sort the list of objects
not just produce a sorted list of names.

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Chris Green

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Using methodcaller in a list sort - any examples anywhere? tinnews@isbd.co.uk - 2011-12-13 15:48 +0000
  Re: Using methodcaller in a list sort - any examples anywhere? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-12-13 17:13 +0100
    Re: Using methodcaller in a list sort - any examples anywhere? tinnews@isbd.co.uk - 2011-12-13 16:48 +0000
  Re: Using methodcaller in a list sort - any examples anywhere? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-12-13 10:08 -0600

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