Python program to sort tuples by total digits

Method 1:

A method to solve the problem is by sorting the list using the sort() method with the sorting key is the sum of lengths of all elements of the tuple.

# Python program to sort tuples 
# by total number of digits in list of tuples 

def digCount(tup):
	return sum([len(str(val)) for val in tup ])

# Creating and Printing tuple list 
tupList = [(43343, 1), (2, 4), (12, 40), (1, 23)]
print("unsorted Tuple list : " + str(tupList))

# sorting list based on digit count using digCount method  
tupList.sort(key = digCount)

# printing result
print("sorted Tuple list : " + str(tupList))

Output:

unsorted Tuple list : [(43343, 1), (2, 4), (12, 40), (1, 23)]
sorted Tuple list : [(2, 4), (1, 23), (12, 40), (43343, 1)]

Method 2:

One method to perform the task is using the lambda function instead of passing a method to the tuple. The lambda will take the list and sort it based on the count of digits in the tuple.

# Python program to sort tuples 
# by total number of digits in list of tuples 

# Creating and Printing tuple list 
tupList = [(43343, 1), (2, 4), (12, 40), (1, 23)]
print("Unsorted Tuple list : " + str(tupList))

# sorting list based on digit count using digCount method  
digitSortedTuple = sorted(tupList, key = lambda tup : sum([len(str(vals)) for vals in tup ]))

# printing result
print("Sorted Tuple list : " + str(digitSortedTuple))

Output:

Unsorted Tuple list : [(43343, 1), (2, 4), (12, 40), (1, 23)]
Sorted Tuple list : [(2, 4), (1, 23), (12, 40), (43343, 1)]