Oct 29, 2013 · That looks like your list doesn't contain any numbers but strings. Python doesn't try to guess what might be inside of those strings, so you get an odd sort order.

The first int is either 0,1, or 2 0 for characters that come before numbers, 1 for numbers, 2 for after numbers the second int is the unicode value of the character, or the integer value of the …

There's also distutils.version.LooseVersion which is a little more forgiving with version numbers that end in letters ['1.0b', '1.0.2-final'], etc. or whatnot - I prefer this version since StrictVersion …

If you are using key= in your sort method you shouldn't use cmp which has been removed from the latest versions of Python. key should be equated to a function which takes a record as …

Mar 16, 2023 · This is a strange answer because you do the sorting in-place but then the reversing out-of-place. If there is another variable aliasing the original list, its value afterwards …

Oct 5, 2013 · l.sort(key= abs, reverse = True) Lists can be sorted using the sort() method. And the sort method has a parameter, called key, which you can pass a function. Using this parameter, …

I have a list of strings containing numbers and I cannot find a good way to sort them. For example I get something like this: something1 something12 something17 something2 something25 …

Feb 24, 2017 · Your code is behaving correctly, since strings sort lexicographically (by first character, then second if first matches, then third if second matches, etc.). If you want to sort …

Jan 4, 2021 · One of my assignments is to write a python program that sorts three numbers in ascending orders without use of any functions like sort or swap. This is the first thing I came …

Dec 19, 2012 · The count sort is much slower for small sizes of the input array because of the python vs C implementation overhead. The count sort starts to overtake the regular sort when …