# a useful sorting function to have, concatenates key and value of a tuple and sorts based on that, useful if keys are not unique
def sortFunction(tuple):
""" Construct the sort string (does not perform actual sorting)
Args:
tuple: (rating, MovieName)
Returns:
sortString: the value to sort with, 'rating MovieName'
"""
key = unicode('%.3f' % tuple[0])
value = tuple[1]
return (key + ' ' + value)