Python | Sort Tuples in Increasing Order by any key

Given a tuple, sort the list of tuples in increasing order by any key in tuple.

Examples:

Input : tuple = [(2, 5), (1, 2), (4, 4), (2, 3)] 
            m = 0
Output : [(1, 2), (2, 3), (2, 5), (4, 4)]
Explanation: Sorted using the 0th index key.

Input :  [(23, 45, 20), (25, 44, 39), (89, 40, 23)]
         m = 2
Output : Sorted: [(23, 45, 20), (89, 40, 23), (25, 44, 39)] 
Explanation: Sorted using the 2nd index key

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Given tuples, we need to sort them according to any given key. This can be done using sorted() function where we sort them using key=last and store last as the key index according to which we have to sort the given tuples.

Below is the Python implementation of the above approach:

# Python code to sort a list of tuples  
# according to given key. 
  
# get the last key. 
def last(n): 
    return n[m]   
   
# function to sort the tuple    
def sort(tuples): 
  
    # We pass used defined function last 
    # as a parameter.  
    return sorted(tuples, key = last) 
   
# driver code   
a = [(23, 45, 20), (25, 44, 39), (89, 40, 23)] 
m = 2
print("Sorted:"), 
print(sort(a)) 

Output:

Sorted: [(23, 45, 20), (89, 40, 23), (25, 44, 39)]

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