How do I sort this list of tuples by both values?

Question

I have a list of tuples: [(2, Operation.SUBSTITUTED), (1, Operation.DELETED), (2, Operation.INSERTED)]

I would like to sort this list in 2 ways:

Answer 1

You can use this:

from operator import itemgetter
d = [(1, 'DELETED'), (2, 'INSERTED'), (2, 'SUBSTITUTED')]
d.sort(key=itemgetter(1),reverse=True)
d.sort(key=itemgetter(0))
print(d)