On Monday, December 24, 2012 7:12:43 PM UTC+1, Joshua Landau wrote: > On 24 December 2012 16:18, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > > > > > In article <40d108ec-b019-4829-a969-c8ef51386...@googlegroups.com>, > > Pander Musubi <pander...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > I would like to sort according to this order: > > > > > > (' ', '.', '\'', '-', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', > > > 'A', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', 'b', 'B', 'c', 'C', > > > '?', '?', 'd', 'D', 'e', 'E', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', 'f', > > > 'F', 'g', 'G', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'I', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', > > > 'j', 'J', 'k', 'K', 'l', 'L', 'm', 'M', 'n', '?', 'N', '?', 'o', 'O', '?', > > > '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', 'p', 'P', 'q', 'Q', 'r', 'R', > > > 's', 'S', 't', 'T', 'u', 'U', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', 'v', > > > > 'V', 'w', 'W', 'x', 'X', 'y', 'Y', 'z', 'Z') > > > > > > > How can I do this? The default sorted() does not give the desired result. > > > > <snip> > > > > > Given all that, I would start by writing some code which turned your > > alphabet into a pair of dicts. One maps from the code point to a > > collating sequence number (i.e. ordinals), the other maps back. > > Something like (for python 2.7): > > > > alphabet = (' ', '.', '\'', '-', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', > > '6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', 'A', '?', '?', '?', '?', > > [...] > > > 'v', 'V', 'w', 'W', 'x', 'X', 'y', 'Y', 'z', 'Z') > > > > map1 = {c: n for n, c in enumerate(alphabet)} > > map2 = {n: c for n, c in enumerate(alphabet)} > > > > Next, I would write some functions which encode your strings as lists of > > ordinals (and back again) > > > > def encode(s): > > "encode('foo') ==> [34, 19, 19]" # made-up ordinals > > return [map1[c] for c in s] > > > > def decode(l): > > "decode([34, 19, 19]) ==> 'foo'" > > return ''.join(map2[i] for i in l) > > > > Use these to convert your strings to lists of ints which will sort as > > per your specified collating order, and then back again: > > > > encoded_strings = [encode(s) for s in original_list] > > encoded_strings.sort() > > sorted_strings = [decode(l) for l in encoded_strings] > > > > This isn't needed and the not-so-new way to do this is through .sort's key > attribute. > > > > > encoded_strings = [encode(s) for s in original_list] > encoded_strings.sort() > sorted_strings = [decode(l) for l in encoded_strings] > > > > changes to > > > > > encoded_strings.sort(key=encode) > > > > [Which happens to be faster </reasonable_guess>] > > > > > Hence you neither need map2 or decode: > > > ## CODE ## > > > > > > alphabet = ( > ' ', '.', '\'', '-', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', > 'a', 'A', 'ä', 'Ä', 'á', 'Á', 'â', 'Â', > > > 'à', 'À', 'å', 'Å', 'b', 'B', 'c', 'C', 'ç', 'Ç', 'd', 'D', 'e', 'E', > 'ë', 'Ë', 'é', 'É', 'ê', 'Ê', 'è', 'È', > > > 'f', 'F', 'g', 'G', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'I', 'ï', 'Ï', 'í', 'Í', 'î', 'Î', > 'ì', 'Ì', 'j', 'J', 'k', 'K', 'l', 'L', > > > 'm', 'M', 'n', 'ñ', 'N', 'Ñ', 'o', 'O', 'ö', 'Ö', 'ó', 'Ó', 'ô', 'Ô', > 'ò', 'Ò', 'ø', 'Ø', 'p', 'P', 'q', 'Q', > > > 'r', 'R', 's', 'S', 't', 'T', 'u', 'U', 'ü', 'Ü', 'ú', 'Ú', 'û', 'Û', > 'ù', 'Ù', 'v', 'V', 'w', 'W', 'x', 'X', > > > 'y', 'Y', 'z', 'Z' > ) > > > > hashindex = {character:index for index, character in enumerate(alphabet)} > > def string2sortlist(string): > return [hashindex[s] for s in string] > > > > > # Quickly make some stuff to sort. Let's try 200k, as that's what's suggested. > import random > things_to_sort = ["".join(random.sample(alphabet, random.randint(4, 6))) for > _ in range(200000)] > > > > > print(things_to_sort[:15]) > > > things_to_sort.sort(key=string2sortlist) > > > > > print(things_to_sort[:15]) > > > ## END CODE ## > > > > > Not-so-coincidentally, this is exactly the same as Ian Kelly's extension to > Tomas Bach's method.
With Python2.7 I had to use alphabet = ( u' ', u'.', u'\'', u'-', u'0', u'1', u'2', u'3', u'4', u'5', u'6', u'7', u'8', u'9', u'a', u'A', u'ä', u'Ä', u'á', u'Á', u'â', u'Â', u'à', u'À', u'å', u'Å', u'b', u'B', u'c', u'C', u'ç', u'Ç', u'd', u'D', u'e', u'E', u'ë', u'Ë', u'é', u'É', u'ê', u'Ê', u'è', u'È', u'f', u'F', u'g', u'G', u'h', u'H', u'i', u'I', u'ï', u'Ï', u'í', u'Í', u'î', u'Î', u'ì', u'Ì', u'j', u'J', u'k', u'K', u'l', u'L', u'm', u'M', u'n', u'ñ', u'N', u'Ñ', u'o', u'O', u'ö', u'Ö', u'ó', u'Ó', u'ô', u'Ô', u'ò', u'Ò', u'ø', u'Ø', u'p', u'P', u'q', u'Q', u'r', u'R', u's', u'S', u't', u'T', u'u', u'U', u'ü', u'Ü', u'ú', u'Ú', u'û', u'Û', u'ù', u'Ù', u'v', u'V', u'w', u'W', u'x', u'X', u'y', u'Y', u'z', u'Z' ) to prevent Traceback (most recent call last): File "./sort.py", line 23, in <module> things_to_sort.sort(key=string2sortlist) File "./sort.py", line 15, in string2sortlist return [hashindex[s] for s in string] KeyError: '\xc3' Thanks very much for this efficient code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list