Flexible string representation, unicode, typography, ...

[Ian Kelly]

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02.09.12 12:52, Peter Otten wrote:
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>> Ian Kelly wrote:
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>>> Rewriting the example to use locale.strcoll instead:
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>>>>>> sorted(li, key=functools.cmp_to_key(locale.strcoll))
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>> There is also locale.strxfrm() which you can use directly:
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>> sorted(li, key=locale.strxfrm)
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>
> Hmm, and with locale.strxfrm Python 3.3 20% slower than 3.2.

Doh!  In Python 3.3, strcoll and strxfrm are the same speed, so I
guess that the actual optimization I'm seeing here is that in Python
3.3, cmp_to_key(strcoll) has been optimized to return strxfrm.