# Sorting ObjectCollections
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/sorting-objectcollections/21572
**Category:** Dev/API Corner
**Tags:** plugin-dev
**Created:** [September 20, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sorting-objectcollections/21572 "2012-09-20T05:00:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@maik](https://forums.plex.tv/u/maik)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sorting-objectcollections/21572/1 "2012-09-20T05:00:31Z")
I’d really like to sort an ObjectCollection full of TrackObjects by album, and then by track number. Is there a built in method for that or do I need to work some Python magic?
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### Author:  [@jam](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jam)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sorting-objectcollections/21572/2 "2012-09-20T15:12:18Z")
You need to work Python magic - there’s no built-in method because it’s pretty easy to do using standard functions. The objects in the ObjectContainer are available as a list via the “objects” property, and can be sorted using a lambda function:
```auto
oc.objects.sort(key = lambda obj: obj.title)
```
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### Author:  [@maik](https://forums.plex.tv/u/maik)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sorting-objectcollections/21572/3 "2012-09-20T21:21:22Z")
> [@](#):
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> You need to work Python magic - there's no built-in method because it's pretty easy to do using standard functions. The objects in the ObjectContainer are available as a list via the "objects" property, and can be sorted using a lambda function:
>
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> ```auto
>
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> oc.objects.sort(key = lambda obj: obj.title)
>
> ```
So I did find that in a different thread, but upon first glance I didn't think it would allow me to sort by multiple keys and I dismissed it. After you posted that I tried to do it blindly with a tuple as my keys and it actually worked.
```auto
oc.objects.sort(key = lambda obj: (obj.album, obj.index))
```
I was sure it was going to fail but it worked beautifully. I love it when that happens.
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### Author:  [@Gerk](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Gerk)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sorting-objectcollections/21572/4 "2012-09-22T14:38:48Z")
> [@](#):
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> So I did find that in a different thread, but upon first glance I didn't think it would allow me to sort by multiple keys and I dismissed it. After you posted that I tried to do it blindly with a tuple as my keys and it actually worked.
>
> ```auto
>
>
> oc.objects.sort(key = lambda obj: (obj.album, obj.index))
>
> ```
>
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> I was sure it was going to fail but it worked beautifully. I love it when that happens.
That happens with python a lot I find!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sorting-objectcollections/21572/5 "2019-12-20T22:16:17Z")
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