On 9 Ott, 09:41, Holger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to do this elegantly, but did not come up with a good solution > > Sort strings like > foo1bar2 > foo10bar10 > foo2bar3 > foo10bar2 > > So that they come out: > foo1bar2 > foo2bar3 > foo10bar2 > foo10bar10 > > I.e. isolate integer parts and sort them according to integer value. > > Thx > Holger
This should work, if you have all stribngs in memory: import re REXP = re.compile( r'\d+' ) lines = ['foo1bar2', 'foo10bar10', 'foo2bar3', 'foo10bar2' ] def key_function( s ): return map(int, re.findall(REXP, s )) lines.sort( key=key_function) Ciao ---- FB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
