Sort multidimensional array based on 2nd element of the subarray

I have an array like this:

[['G', 10], ['A', 22], ['S', 1], ['P', 14], ['V', 13], ['T', 7], ['C', 0], ['I', 219]]

I’d like to sort it based on the 2nd element in descending order.
An ideal output would be:

[['I', 219], ['A', 22], ['P', 14], ... ]

Answers:

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Method 1

list.sort, sorted accept optional key parameter. key function is used to generate comparison key.

>>> sorted(lst, key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)
[['I', 219], ['A', 22], ['P', 14], ['V', 13], ['G', 10], ...]

>>> sorted(lst, key=lambda x: -x[1])
[['I', 219], ['A', 22], ['P', 14], ['V', 13], ['G', 10], ...]

>>> import operator
>>> sorted(lst, key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)
[['I', 219], ['A', 22], ['P', 14], ['V', 13], ['G', 10], ...]

Method 2

Use itemgetter

from operator import itemgetter
a = [[1, 3, 5], [2, 511, 7], [17, 233, 1]]
a = sorted(a, key=itemgetter(1))

Output : [[1, 3, 5], [17, 233, 1], [2, 511, 7]]

itemgetter can also be used to sort by multiple subarrays.

Method 3

x= [[8, 9, 7],
    [1, 2, 3],
    [5, 4, 3],
    [4, 5, 6]]
x.sort(cmp=lambda x,y: cmp(x[0],y[0]))
print x

Method 4

Do this:

Sort the multi-dimensional array in descending order on the basis of 2nd column:

list_name.sort(key=lambda x:x[1],reverse=True)

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