[Tutor] improve the code

[Alan Gauld]

On 02/11/11 16:58, Dave Angel wrote:

>>>>> sorted(results)
>> ['10B', '1A', '2C', '3D']
>>
>> as [ '1A', '2C', '3D','10B']


> Essence of the answer is you can supply a key=myfunc argument to
> sorted(). Then it's up to you what you put in that function. It sounds
> like you want to convert any leading digits to an int, and return that int.

Or in your case it might be hex in which case convert the whole string 
using int and specify the base to be 16...

 >>> int('1A',16)
26

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