Using namedtuples field names for column indices in a list of lists

Mon Jan 9 19:54:06 EST 2017

Peter Otten wrote, on January 09, 2017 3:27 PM
>> While stable sort is nice in this case you can just say
>> key=operator.attrgetter("Description", "Date")
>> Personally I'd only use sorted() once and then switch to the 
> sort() method.

This works perfectly, thank you.
As I read the docs, the main (only?) difference between sorted() and
.sort() is that .sort() sorts the list in place.
Since I won't change the order of the records again after the sort, I'm
using 
records.sort(key=operator.attrgetter("Description", "Date"))
once, which also works perfectly.
So both sorted() and sort() can be used to sort namedtuples. Good to
know!