Sorting List

[Pedroski55]

I thought this was interesting. You end up with a list of named tuples.

from collections import namedtuple
mylist = ['Finley : 10', 'Evie : 0', 'P1 : 0', 'P2 : 5', 'P1 : 0', 'P2 : 5', 'Finley : 15', 'Evie : 5']
Player = namedtuple('Player', 'name score')
tups = []
for m in mylist:
    alist = m.split()
    name = alist[0]                         
    score = int(alist[2])
    tups.append(Player(name, score))
# sort by name or score
tups.sort(key=lambda x: getattr(x, 'score'), reverse=True)