Sorted() function in Python
Sorted() function in Python :
Sorted() is an in-built function in python , which used to sort any type of sequence like list , tuple.
Set is already sorted we need not to sort a set. Sorted sort any type of sequence and returns the sequence in sorted manner without changing the original sequence.
sorted() in Python
The sorted() function is a way to sort a list without using sort() function.
Example :
- ( 2 , 1, 4 ,3)
- sorted = ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4)
Syntax :
sorted( iterable , key , reverse )
Parameters : sorted takes three parameters from which two are optional.
Iterable : sequence (list, tuple, string) or collection (dictionary, set, frozenset) or any other iterator that needs to be sorted.
Key(optional) : A function that would server as a key or a basis of sort comparison.
Reverse(optional) : If set true, then the iterable would be sorted in reverse (descending) order, by default it is set as false.
Code 1 :
#Sorted
li=[(1,2),(4,5) ,( 3 ,9)]
print('sorted list:',sorted(li))
print(' Orginal List :' ,li)
Output :
sorted list: [(1, 2), (3, 9), (4, 5)]
Orginal List : [(1, 2), (4, 5), (3, 9)]
User Defined Sorting :
- sorted() function has an optional parameter called ‘key’ which takes a function as its value. This key function transforms each element before sorting, it takes the value and returns 1 value which is then used within sort instead of the original value.
Code 2:
#Sorted
L = [[1,2,5], [3,6], [2,1,9], [8,0,0]]
print ("Normal sort :", sorted(L))
print ("Sort with sum :", sorted(L, key = sum))
Output :
Normal sort : [[1, 2, 5], [2, 1, 9], [3, 6], [8, 0, 0]]
Sort with sum : [[1, 2, 5], [8, 0, 0], [3, 6], [2, 1, 9]]
In the above Program , the inner list is sorted according to their sum in ascending order as sum of ( 1+ 2 + 3) < ( 3+6) .
Which means that the slists would be sorted based on their sum instead
Code 3:
#Sorted
# List elements: (Student's Name, Marks out of 100 , Age)
p_list = [
('A', 70, 18),
('B', 85, 22),
('D', 45, 30),
('C', 99, 22),
('E', 33, 42)
]
def sorting(item):
# Since highest marks first, least error = most marks
error = 100 - item[1]
age = item[2]
return (error, age)
sorted_list = sorted(p_list, key=sorting)
print(sorted_list)
Output :
[('C', 99, 22), ('B', 85, 22), ('A', 70, 18), ('D', 45, 30), ('E', 33, 42)] P_list is sorted in such a way that the person with higher marks gets the first position in the list.
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