Sort a list with a custom order in Python

Question

I have a list

mylist = [[\'123\', \'BOOL\', \'234\'], [\'345\', \'INT\', \'456\'], [\'567\', \'DINT\', \'678\']]

I want to sort it with the orde

Answer 1

Since that is not in aphabetical order I don't think there is one single function that can sort it but what you could do is create a new list and then append. This is kind of a cheap method of doing it; but it gets the job done.

newlist=[];
for sub_list in mylist:
     if(sub_list[1] == 'DINT']):
          newlist.append(sub_list);

for sub_list in mylist:
     if(sub_list[1] == 'INT']):
         newlist.append(sub_list);

for sub_list in mylist:
     if(sub_list[1] == 'BOOL']):
            newlist.append(sub_list);