On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 6:51 AM, Paul <tallp...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the US, at least, spaces should sort before letters. > > MRAB brought up an important point. It depends on your purpose, of course, > but having all the capitalized-beginning items appear separately from all > of the lower-cased-beginning items can be very annoying to a user.
And that's why locale-based sorting exists. You can't set a single definition of sorting and expect it to work for everyone. In fact, even within a language, there can be different sorting rules for different types of data (a list of names might be sorted one way, but a list of book titles differently). Peter's recommendation covers most of that, modulo the types-of-data complexity; you should be able to sort German text according to German rules, and Dutch text according to Dutch rules. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
