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+# Sebastian Raschka 09/02/2014
+# Sorting a list of tuples by the last last elements of the tuple
+
+a_list = [(1,3,'c'), (2,3,'a'), (1,2,'b')]
+
+sorted_list = sorted(a_list, key=lambda e: e[::-1])
+
+print(sorted_list)
+
+# prints [(2, 3, 'a'), (1, 2, 'b'), (1, 3, 'c')]
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