How to sort a list of lists by a specific index of the inner list?

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This is a job for itemgetter

>>> from operator import itemgetter
>>> L=[[0, 1, 'f'], [4, 2, 't'], [9, 4, 'afsd']]
>>> sorted(L, key=itemgetter(2))
[[9, 4, 'afsd'], [0, 1, 'f'], [4, 2, 't']]

It is also possible to use a lambda function here, however the lambda function is slower in this simple case

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