I have a list that consists of details like this:
list1 = ["1", "100A", "342B", "2C", "132", "36", "302F"]
now, i want to sort this list, such that the values are in the following order:
list1 = ["1", "2C", "36", "100A", "132", "302F", "342B"]
Just doing list1.sort() obviously doesn't give the correct answer -
it gives:
list1 = ["1", "100A", "132", "2C", "36", "302F", "342B"]
I'm assuming this is because python treats all these as strings directly.
However, I want to sort them based on their numeric value FIRST, and then the character that follows the number.
How do I proceed?
Thank you so much :)
解决方案
You want to use natural sort:
import re
_nsre = re.compile('([0-9]+)')
def natural_sort_key(s):
return [int(text) if text.isdigit() else text.lower()
for text in re.split(_nsre, s)]
Example usage:
>>> list1 = ["1", "100A", "342B", "2C", "132", "36", "302F"]
>>> list1.sort(key=natural_sort_key)
>>> list1
['1', '2C', '36', '100A', '132', '302F', '342B']
This functions by splitting the elements into lists separating out the numbers and comparing them as integers instead of strings:
>>> natural_sort_key("100A")
['', 100, 'a']
>>> natural_sort_key("342B")
['', 342, 'b']
Note that this only works in Python3 if you are always comparing ints with ints and strings with strings, otherwise you get a TypeError: unorderable types exception.