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Python program to sort a list of tuples by second Item
When it is required to sort a list of tuples based on the second item, the lambda function and ‘sorted’ method can be used.
A list can be used to store heterogeneous values (i.e data of any data type like integer, floating point, strings, and so on). A list of tuple basically contains tuples enclosed in a list.
Anonymous function is a function which is defined without a name.
In general, functions in Python are defined using ‘def’ keyword, but anonymous function is defined with the help of ‘lambda’ keyword. It takes a single expression, but can take any number of arguments. It uses the expression and returns the result of it.
The ‘sorted’ method is used to sort the elements of a list.
Below is a demonstration for the same −
Example
def tuple_sort(my_tuple):
return(sorted(my_tuple, key = lambda x: x[1]))
my_tuple = [('bill', 11), ('rick', 45), ('john', 89), ('liv', 25)]
print("The list of tuple is : ")
print(my_tuple)
print("After sorting, the list of tuple becomes : ")
print(tuple_sort(my_tuple))Output
The list of tuple is :
[('bill', 11), ('rick', 45), ('john', 89), ('liv', 25)]
After sorting, the list of tuple becomes :
[('bill', 11), ('liv', 25), ('rick', 45), ('john', 89)]Explanation
- A function named ‘tuple_sort’ is defined, that takes a list of tuple as parameter.
- It is first iterated over using lambda function, and sorted using the ‘sorted’ function.
- This is returned as output.
- A list of tuple is defined and is displayed on the console.
- The ‘tuple_sort’ method is called by passing this list of tuple as parameter.
- This value is displayed as output on the console.
Updated on: 11-Mar-2021
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