[Tutor] sorting file paths made up of of strings and numbers

[Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009, Emad Nawfal (???? ????) wrote:
> >
> >   Hi tutors,
> >   How can I sort the following list in a way that takes care of the
> >   right order of numbers? The sorted function compares strings here as
> >   far as I can see, but I want to have filepath2 follow filepath1. Your
> >   help is appreciated.
>
> There is at least one example of a method of dealing with this in
> the O'Reilly ``Python cookbook''.
>
> >   >>> myList
> >   ['filepath54', 'filepath25', 'filepath49', 'filepath0', 'filepath89',
> >   'filepath52', 'filepath37', 'filepath32', 'filepath2', 'filepath15',
> >   'filepath88', 'filepath70', 'filepath33', 'filepath58', 'filepath28',
> >   'filepath61', 'filepath23', 'filepath64', 'filepath72', 'filepath11',
> >   'filepath63', 'filepath76', 'filepath87', 'filepath45', 'filepath41',
> >   'filepath68', 'filepath81', 'filepath75', 'filepath62', 'filepath46',
> >   'filepath36', 'filepath39', 'filepath5', 'filepath34', 'filepath8',
> >   'filepath67', 'filepath14', 'filepath82', 'filepath29', 'filepath47',
> >   'filepath79', 'filepath13', 'filepath16', 'filepath71', 'filepath27',
> >   'filepath100', 'filepath20', 'filepath92', 'filepath57', 'filepath73',
> >   'filepath40', 'filepath44', 'filepath83', 'filepath50', 'filepath66',
> >   'filepath94', 'filepath86', 'filepath22', 'filepath17', 'filepath84',
> >   'filepath38', 'filepath12', 'filepath53', 'filepath6', 'filepath48',
> >   'filepath60', 'filepath51', 'filepath90', 'filepath4', 'filepath78',
> >   'filepath69', 'filepath35', 'filepath97', 'filepath93', 'filepath24',
> >   'filepath26', 'filepath1', 'filepath3', 'filepath96', 'filepath77',
> >   'filepath98', 'filepath18', 'filepath43', 'filepath19', 'filepath56',
> >   'filepath65', 'filepath95', 'filepath55', 'filepath7', 'filepath99',
> >   'filepath91', 'filepath85', 'filepath9', 'filepath59', 'filepath10',
> >   'filepath30', 'filepath31', 'filepath80', 'filepath42', 'filepath74',
> >   'filepath21']
> >   >>> sorted(myList)
> >   ['filepath0', 'filepath1', 'filepath10', 'filepath100', 'filepath11',
> >   'filepath12', 'filepath13', 'filepath14', 'filepath15', 'filepath16',
> >   'filepath17', 'filepath18', 'filepath19', 'filepath2', 'filepath20',
> >   'filepath21', 'filepath22', 'filepath23', 'filepath24', 'filepath25',
> >   'filepath26', 'filepath27', 'filepath28', 'filepath29', 'filepath3',
> >   'filepath30', 'filepath31', 'filepath32', 'filepath33', 'filepath34',
> >   'filepath35', 'filepath36', 'filepath37', 'filepath38', 'filepath39',
> >   'filepath4', 'filepath40', 'filepath41', 'filepath42', 'filepath43',
> >   'filepath44', 'filepath45', 'filepath46', 'filepath47', 'filepath48',
> >   'filepath49', 'filepath5', 'filepath50', 'filepath51', 'filepath52',
> >   'filepath53', 'filepath54', 'filepath55', 'filepath56', 'filepath57',
> >   'filepath58', 'filepath59', 'filepath6', 'filepath60', 'filepath61',
> >   'filepath62', 'filepath63', 'filepath64', 'filepath65', 'filepath66',
> >   'filepath67', 'filepath68', 'filepath69', 'filepath7', 'filepath70',
> >   'filepath71', 'filepath72', 'filepath73', 'filepath74', 'filepath75',
> >   'filepath76', 'filepath77', 'filepath78', 'filepath79', 'filepath8',
> >   'filepath80', 'filepath81', 'filepath82', 'filepath83', 'filepath84',
> >   'filepath85', 'filepath86', 'filepath87', 'filepath88', 'filepath89',
> >   'filepath9', 'filepath90', 'filepath91', 'filepath92', 'filepath93',
> >   'filepath94', 'filepath95', 'filepath96', 'filepath97', 'filepath98',
> >   'filepath99']
> >   >>> ```
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Thank you Kent and Bill. This is much easier than itemgetter.
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Emad Soliman Nawfal
Indiana University, Bloomington
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