Custom alphabetical sort

[Ian Kelly]

On Dec 24, 2012 9:37 AM, "Pander Musubi" <pander.musubi at gmail.com> wrote:

> > >>> ''.join(sorted(random.sample(cs, 20), key=d.get))
> >
> > '5aAàÀåBCçËÉíÎLÖøquùx'
>
> This doesn't work for words with more than one character:

Try this instead:

def collate(x):
    return list(map(d.get, x))

sorted(data, key=collate)

I would also probably change "d.get" to "d.__getitem__" for a clearer error
message in the case the string contains characters that it doesn't know how
to sort.
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