Pythonic way to sorting list of namedtuples by field name

Question

I want to sort a list of named tuples without having to remember the index of the fieldname. My solution seems rather awkward and was hoping someone would have a more elegan

Answer 1

from operator import attrgetter
from collections import namedtuple

Person = namedtuple('Person', 'name age score')
seq = [Person(name='nick', age=23, score=100),
       Person(name='bob', age=25, score=200)]

Sort list by name

sorted(seq, key=attrgetter('name'))

Sort list by age

sorted(seq, key=attrgetter('age'))