On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 16:53 +0530, Amit Khemka wrote: > On 9/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > > > I have the following list - > > > > ["1", "11", "2", "22"] > > > > how do I sort it like this - > > > > ["1", "2", "11", "22"] > > > > Hi, > > >>> l = ["1", "11", "2", "22"] > >>> sorted(l, cmp = lambda x, y: cmp(int(x), int(y))) # provide your > own compare function ! > >>> l > ['1', '2', '11', '22']
That interpreter session is a work of fiction, since sorted returns the sorted list instead of sorting the list in place. Also, it's better (i.e. more readable and likely faster) to use a sort key function instead of a comparison function whenever possible. In this case, the sort key function is particularly trivial: >>> l = ["1", "11", "2", "22"] >>> sorted(l, key=int) ['1', '2', '11', '22'] -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
