I'll bite. std::vector<std::pair<float, std::string>> in_order; std::transform(data.begin(), data.end(), std::back_inserter(in_order), [](

I'll bite. std::vector<std::pair<float, std::string>> in_order; std::transform(data.begin(), data.end(), std::back_inserter(in_order), [](auto& item) {return std::make_pair(item.weight, item.name);}); std::sort(in_order.begin(), in_order.end(), std::greater<>()); While I won't claim it to be as elegant as Python, it doesn't seem too ugly. Does anybody have an idea about how `auto` could be utilized to avoid the long vector<pair...> type declaration? For the adventurous: https://repl.it/repls/RepentantGentleKudu https://repl.it/repls/RepentantGentleKudu