My application needs to handle different language sorts. Do you know a way to apply strxfrm dynamically i.e. without setting the locale?
Tuomas Neil Cerutti wrote: > 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'] > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
