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Re: Sorting (deeply) nested lists

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On Saturday, March 2, 2013 9:36:43 AM UTC-8, Peter Otten wrote:
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> You can also write this as
> 
> namedTuples.sort(key=lambda item: item[1][1])
>

That's exactly what I did before and got "IndexError: list index out of range".

So, I thought my lambda was wrong and posted here.

Now, having seen you reply, I dug deeper and... of course I had IndexError: the list was horribly empty!

Thanks so much for replying so quickly, Peter!

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Sorting (deeply) nested lists mamboknave@gmail.com - 2013-03-02 09:18 -0800
  Re: Sorting (deeply) nested lists Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-03-02 18:36 +0100
    Re: Sorting (deeply) nested lists mamboknave@gmail.com - 2013-03-02 09:49 -0800
    Re: Sorting (deeply) nested lists mamboknave@gmail.com - 2013-03-02 09:49 -0800

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