How to order these lines for a highscore table in Python
('bob', '10')
('Ben', '10')
('Ben', '9')
('Ben', '8')
('Ben', '2')
('Ben', '6')
('Ben', '5')
('Ben', '5')
('Ben', '3')
('Ben', '2')

import ast
from operator import itemgetter

def parse_item(s):
  name, score = ast.literal_eval(s)
  return name, int(score)

with open("infile", "r") as infile:
  items = [parse_item(line.strip()) for line in infile]

for item in sorted(items, key=itemgetter(1), reverse=True):
  print item

print ''.join(sorted(open('infile'), key=lambda l: -int(ast.literal_eval(l)[1]))),

sorted(l, key=lambda(name,score):int(score), reverse=True)

class Highscore:
   def __init__(self, name, score):
      self.name = name
      self.score = score

   def __cmp__(self, other):
      return -cmp(self.score, other.score)