The Sort Rows block

Put rows in order · in code: Sorting a List

What it does

Makes a sorted copy of a list: by one field of each row, like marks, or by the items themselves.

Sort: The list to sort, like students.
By: The field to sort by, like marks. Leave it empty for a list of plain numbers or words.
Order: Smallest first (A to Z), or biggest first (Z to A).
Keep the first: A number, to keep only the first few: 5 for the top 5. Leave it empty to keep them all.
Put them in: The name of the sorted list. The list it came from stays in its old order.

Open it in the editor, press Run, then change it and run it again.

ExampleHighest marks first Try it

It showsTop 3: 91, 80, 62

1marks = [45, 80, 62, 30, 91]2ranked = sorted(marks, reverse=True)[:3]3print("Top 3: " + ", ".join(str(item) for item in ranked))

Rows with the same value keep the order they were in.
Numbers sort as numbers (9 before 10); words sort letter by letter, capitals before small letters.
View Code uses each language's own sort, like Python's sorted().

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