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

since nobody mentioned using itemgetter(), here how you do using itemgetter().

from operator import itemgetter
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
print(sorted(seq, key=itemgetter(0)))

# sort list by age
print(sorted(seq, key=itemgetter(1)))