方法1.用List的成员函数sort进行排序
方法2.用built-in函数sorted进行排序（从2.4开始）
这两种方法使用起来差不多，以第一种为例进行讲解：
从Python2.4开始，sort方法有了三个可选的参数，Python Library Reference里是这样描述的
代码如下:
cmp:cmp specifies a custom comparison function of two arguments (iterable elements) which should return a negative, zero or positive number depending on whether the first argument is considered smaller than, equal to, or larger than the second argument:
"cmp=lambda x,y: cmp(x.lower(), y.lower())"
key:key specifies a function of one argument that is used to extract a comparison key from each list element: "key=str.lower"
reverse:reverse is a boolean value. If set to True, then the list elements are sorted as if each comparison were reversed.In general, the key and reverse conversion processes are much faster than specifying an
equivalent cmp function. This is because cmp is called multiple times for each list element while key and reverse touch each element only once.
代码如下:
>>>L = [2,3,1,4]
>>>L.sort()
>>>L
>>>[1,2,3,4]
代码如下:
>>>L = [2,3,1,4]
>>>L.sort(reverse=True)
>>>L
>>>[4,3,2,1]
代码如下:
>>>L = [('b',2),('a',1),('c',3),('d',4)]
>>>L.sort(cmp=lambda x,y:cmp(x[1],y[1]))
>>>L
>>>[('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3), ('d', 4)]
代码如下:
>>>L = [('b',2),('a',1),('c',3),('d',4)]
>>>L.sort(key=lambda x:x[1])
>>>L
>>>[('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3), ('d', 4)]
代码如下:
>>>L = [('b',2),('a',1),('c',3),('d',4)]
>>>import operator
>>>L.sort(key=operator.itemgetter(1))
>>>L
>>>[('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3), ('d', 4)]
代码如下:
>>>L = [('b',2),('a',1),('c',3),('d',4)]
>>>A = [(x[1],i,x) for i,x in enumerate(L)] #i can confirm the stable sort
>>>A.sort()
>>>L = [s[2] for s in A]
>>>L
>>>[('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3), ('d', 4)]
代码如下:
cmp < DSU < key
代码如下:
>>>L = [('d',2),('a',4),('b',3),('c',2)]
>>> L.sort(key=lambda x:x[1])
>>> L
>>>[('d', 2), ('c', 2), ('b', 3), ('a', 4)]
代码如下:
>>> L = [('d',2),('a',4),('b',3),('c',2)]
>>> L.sort(key=lambda x:(x[1],x[0]))
>>> L
>>>[('c', 2), ('d', 2), ('b', 3), ('a', 4)]
代码如下:
>>> L = [('d',2),('a',4),('b',3),('c',2)]
>>> L.sort(key=operator.itemgetter(1,0))
>>> L
>>>[('c', 2), ('d', 2), ('b', 3), ('a', 4)]
