On 2006-10-16, Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have several applications where I want to sort lists in > alphabetical order. Most examples of sorting usually sort on > the ord() order of the character set as an approximation. But > that is not always what you want.
Check out strxfrm in the locale module. >>> a = ["Neil", "Cerutti", "neil", "cerutti"] >>> a.sort() >>> a ['Cerutti', 'Neil', 'cerutti', 'neil'] >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') 'English_United States.1252' >>> a.sort(key=locale.strxfrm) >>> a ['cerutti', 'Cerutti', 'neil', 'Neil'] -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
