Sorting list alphabetically

[Kev Dwyer]

Igor Korot wrote:

> Hi, ALL,
> I need to perform a subj.
> Looking at the Google I found following thread with explanation:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36139/how-do-i-sort-a-list-of-strings-
in-python
> 
> However, doing this in my python shell produces an error:
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Igor.FORDANWORK\My
> Documents\GitHub\webapp>python Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013,
> 22:43:36) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import locale
>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "c:\python27\lib\locale.py", line 547, in setlocale
>     return _setlocale(category, locale)
> locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
>>>>
> 
> What is wrong with this?
> 
> Thank you.


Hello Igor,

Windows maintains it's own names for locales, so you need to 
supply the Windows name if you're workong on Windows.

You might find these links helpful:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19709026/how-can-i-list-all-available-
windows-locales-in-python-console

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-February/525427.html

Cheers,

Kev