Alphabetical sorts

[Tuomas]

My application needs to handle different language sorts. Do you know a 
way to apply strxfrm dynamically i.e. without setting the locale?

Tuomas

Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2006-10-16, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:
> 
>>I have several applications where I want to sort lists in
>>alphabetical order. Most examples of sorting usually sort on
>>the ord() order of the character set as an approximation.  But
>>that is not always what you want.
> 
> 
> Check out strxfrm in the locale module.
> 
> 
>>>>a = ["Neil", "Cerutti", "neil", "cerutti"]
>>>>a.sort()
>>>>a
> 
> ['Cerutti', 'Neil', 'cerutti', 'neil']
> 
>>>>import locale
>>>>locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
> 
> 'English_United States.1252'
> 
>>>>a.sort(key=locale.strxfrm)
>>>>a
> 
> ['cerutti', 'Cerutti', 'neil', 'Neil']
>