If you know how to use variables in Python, this works similarly: except instead of storing one piece of data as an integer, you are storing custom information about an object you conceived.

As an FYI, nosferatu-man's and my solutions are better than S. Carton's, but require Python 2.4. The "key" parameter to sort/sorted does a "Decorate-Sort-Undecorate" [1] automatically, whereas the ...