[Solved] How to sort this list by the highest score?

Question

You can use the sorted function with the key parameter to look at the 2nd item, and reverse set to True to sort in descending order.

>>> sorted(data_list, key = lambda i : i[1], reverse = True)
[['Jimmy', [8]], ['Reece', [8]], ['Zerg', [5]], ['Bob', [4]]]

Accepted Answer

You can use the sorted function with the key parameter to look at the 2nd item, and reverse set to True to sort in descending order.

>>> sorted(data_list, key = lambda i : i[1], reverse = True)
[['Jimmy', [8]], ['Reece', [8]], ['Zerg', [5]], ['Bob', [4]]]