Tobiah wrote: > I had a case today where I needed to sort two string: > > ['Awards', 'Award Winners'] > > I consulted a few sources to get a suggestion as to > what would be correct. My first idea was to throw them > through a Linux command line sort: > > Awards > Award Winners > > Then I did some Googling, and found that most US systems seem > to prefer that one ignore spaces when alphabetizing. The sort > program seemed to agree. > > I put the items into the database that way, but I had forgotten > that my applications used python to sort them anyway. The result > was different: > > >>> a = ['Awards', 'Award Winners'] > >>> sorted(a) > ['Award Winners', 'Awards'] > > So python evaluated the space as a lower ASCII value. > > Thoughts? Are there separate tools for alphabetizing > rather then sorting?
>>> items = ["Awards", "Award Winners", "awards"] >>> sorted(items) ['Award Winners', 'Awards', 'awards'] >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8") 'en_US.UTF-8' >>> sorted(items, key=locale.strxfrm) ['awards', 'Awards', 'Award Winners'] >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "C") 'C' >>> sorted(items, key=locale.strxfrm) ['Award Winners', 'Awards', 'awards'] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
