Sorting lists in python

Question

Okay, so I have a bit of a problem, Im new to python sorry.

I am trying to sort a list by score, which is a number, but if there is a draw I need to sort them by the

Answer 1

You'd have to iterate over each line and use the sort method on them

#open the file and read through the lines.
lines = open('yourfile.txt').readlines()

#iterate over each line, and split along the spaces 
pairs =[]
for line in lines:
   split_string = line.split('')
   num = int(split_string[0])
   pairs.append((num, split_string[1:])

#sort through the pairs (from mgilsons answer)
pairs.sort(key=lambda x: (x[0],len(x[1]))

edit: actually misread the question.