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Elsewere, say you want to sort a non-omogeneous list, or according to a custom order (attribute1 descending, attribute2 ascending) cmp make this easy You can do this in python with the key function returning a list/tuple: mylist.sort(key=lambda element: (element.attribute1, -element.attribute2))