On 31/10/12 16:17:14, djc wrote: > Python 3.2.3 (default, Oct 19 2012, 19:53:16) > >>>> sorted(n+s) > ['1', '10', '101', '13', '1a', '2', '2000', '222 bb', '3', '31', '40', > 'a', 'a1', 'ab', 'acd', 'b a 4', 'bcd'] > >>>> sorted(int(x) if x.isdigit() else x for x in n+s) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: unorderable types: str() < int() >>>>
>>> sorted(n+s, key=lambda x:(x.__class__.__name__, x)) ['1', '10', '101', '13', '1a', '2', '2000', '222 bb', '3', '31', '40', 'a', 'a1', 'ab', 'acd', 'b a 4', 'bcd'] >>> > The best I can think of is to split the input sequence into two lists, > sort each and then join them. That might well be the most readable solution. Hope this helps, -- HansM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
