sorting words with Python (from pythonlearn.com - http://www.pythonlearn.com/html-008/cfbook011.html

sort-words-with-tuples.py

#! /usr/bin/env python

txt = 'but soft what light in yonder window breaks'

words = txt.split()
t = list()
for word in words:
    t.append((len(word), word))

t.sort(reverse = True)
res = list()
for length, word in t:
    res.append(word)
    
print res