I think you may have to be more specific and provide a comparison function so that your list can be sorted. Took the code below from the following site. Hope it helps:
https://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting
>>> student_tuples = [
('john', 'A', 15),
('jane', 'B', 12),
('dave', 'B', 10),
]
>>> sorted(student_tuples, key=lambda student: student[2]) # sort by age
[('dave', 'B', 10), ('jane', 'B', 12), ('john', 'A', 15)]
solved list populate by append function can’t be sorted by sort function