If i wanted a list that contains numbers and words, like this one
random_list=["h: 100", "g: 57", "k: 1", "p: 200"]
Sorted numerically so it becomes
["k: 1", "g: 57", "h: 100", "p: 200"]
What would be the code in python 3?
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Paul Rooney
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1That's not a list, it's a dictionary. – MattDMo May 25 '15 at 20:24
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10That's not even a dictionary, it's a SyntaxError. – roippi May 25 '15 at 20:24
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Well, true, it's dictionary-ish. Sort of. Not really... – MattDMo May 25 '15 at 20:25
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2@hello, why don't you post your code of what you are trying to do, what you want to accomplish and we can go from there. – Hai Vu May 25 '15 at 20:27
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possible duplicate of [Sort a Python dictionary by value](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/613183/sort-a-python-dictionary-by-value) – hoss May 25 '15 at 20:55
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Python sorting allows for a key keyword that can be used to define your own sorting method. The below code is for Python 2.7, I assume 3 is similar:
random_list=["h: 100", "g: 57", "k: 1", "p: 200"]
sorted(random_list, key=lambda x: int(x.split()[1]))
# ['k: 1', 'g: 57', 'h: 100', 'p: 200']
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Firstly, that's a wrong data structure. You either mean a list or a dictionary.
Since the contents of your 'list' are key-value pairs, I'm guessing what you need is a dictionary instead. Dictionaries have the sorted() function available to them.
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