How to sort a list of lists by a specific index of the inner list?

Question

I have a list of lists. For example,

[
[0,1,\'f\'],
[4,2,\'t\'],
[9,4,\'afsd\']
]

If I wanted to sort the outer list by the string field o

Answer 1

I think lambda function can solve your problem.

old_list = [[0,1,'f'], [4,2,'t'],[9,4,'afsd']]

#let's assume we want to sort lists by last value ( old_list[2] )
new_list = sorted(old_list, key=lambda x: x[2])

#Resulst of new_list will be:

[[9, 4, 'afsd'], [0, 1, 'f'], [4, 2, 't']]