I am trying to sort this list of lists by the year and then by month,I can get the years part sorted but am stuck when I try to do secondary sort by month. I have created a dict and a list to try to use to sort. my code: from operator import itemgetter import pandas as pd month_list = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"] months = { 'Jan': 0, 'Feb': 1, 'Mar': 2, 'Apr': 3, 'May': 4, 'Jun': 5, 'Jul': 6, 'Aug': 7, 'Sep': 8, 'Oct': 9, 'Nov': 10, 'Dec': 11, } data = [['Sep', '2024', 112], ['Dec', '2022', 79], ['Apr', '2023', 114], ['Aug', '2024', 194], ['May', '2022', 140], ['Jan', '2023', 222]] half_sorted = sorted(data, key=itemgetter(1)) input(half_sorted) My Output so far: [['Dec', '2022', 79], ['May', '2022', 140], ['Apr', '2023', 114], ['Jan', '2023', 222], ['Sep', '2024', 112], ['Aug', '2024', 194]] Continue reading...