Question

How to sort a list of strings by thired letter of each string in Python

Answer 1

lst = ["python", "c c++", "rust", "php", "cobol", "java", "csharp"]
 
lst = sorted(lst, key=lambda x: x[2]) 

print(lst)

# b c h p s t v 

 
'''
run:
 
['cobol', 'c c++', 'csharp', 'php', 'rust', 'python', 'java']

'''

 

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Answer 2

def thired_char(s):
    return s[2]
 
lst = ["python", "c c++", "rust", "php", "cobol", "java", "csharp"]
 
lst.sort(key=thired_char)

print(lst)

# b c h p s t v 

 
'''
run:
 
['cobol', 'c c++', 'csharp', 'php', 'rust', 'python', 'java']

'''

 

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