sorting a list

[Matthias Huening]

ketulp_baroda at yahoo.com wrote in news:f046efac.0403091513.3b392074
@posting.google.com:

> But I am actually looking for an output:
> ['A','a','D','F','f']
> 
> Is there any module to sort a list this way?

You could use the locale module to sort according to locale 
conventions:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,"")
'German_Germany.1252'
>>> a = ['A', 'D', 'F', 'a', 'f', 'ä']
>>> def sortDeutsch(a,b):
        return locale.strcoll(a[0], b[0])
>>> a.sort(sortDeutsch)
>>> a
['a', 'A', '\xe4', 'D', 'f', 'F']
>>>  


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