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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _inplace_sort_by_id(unsorted_list):
 """Takes a list of dicts each of which has an '@id' key, sorts the elements in the list by the value of the @id key. Assumes that @id is unique or the dicts have a meaningul < operator """

    if not isinstance(unsorted_list, list):
        return
    sorted_list = [(i.get('@id'), i) for i in unsorted_list]
    sorted_list.sort()
    del unsorted_list[:]
    unsorted_list.extend([i[1] for i in sorted_list])