title: How do you sort a multidimensional list by absolute value in python
body: <p>I've got a 3 dimensional list, two of the columns include strings, and one an int. How do I sort the second column by absolute value? I've tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>sorted(yestForSort,key=lambda l:l[1], reverse=True)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but this doesn't give me absolute value. I've tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def sorting(numbers_array):
      return sorted(numbers_array, key = abs(numbers_array))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but this doesn't work on 2 dimensions. </p>