[Tutor] Sorting a list

[Walker Hale IV]

The prize goes to Bob Gailer! This solution is not only shortest, but
works perfectly with negative numbers.

-- 
Walker Hale <walker.hale.iv at gmail.com>

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:22 PM, bob gailer <bgailer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lie Ryan wrote:
>>
>> Timo wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I don't think this should be difficult, so maybe I look over it. But I
>>> can't seem to find the solution.
>>>
>>> I have a list with one word and a couple of numbers. Now I want the word
>>> to be kept in the first location and the numbers to be sorted.
>>>
>>> So this:
>>> [4, 6, 'word', 3, 9]
>>>
>>> should be:
>>>
>>> ['word', 3, 4, 6, 9]
>>>
>>
>> Why not:
>> >>> sorted(lst, key=lambda x: (0, x) if isinstance(x, str) else (1, x))
>> ['word', 3, 4, 6, 9]
>
> Again in the relentless pursuit of terseness:
>
> sorted(a, key=lambda x: (isinstance(x, int), x))
>
>
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