Chris Withers wrote:
Dieter Maurer wrote:
Chris Withers writes:
Andrew bart David sophie Wayne Why in hell do you switch caseness for similar objects?
Who said anything about objects? I was just talking about lists of strings and in general, people prefer sorting based on the character to take precedence over sorting based on the case of that character.
Sadly, python's default sort does it the other way round :-(
This is not wrong. Again, if the default sort tried to sort case-insensitively, it would yield incorrect results for existing code that sorts lists of strings containing data rather than text. And again, what you really want is a "textops" module that does something like this: def sort_strings(data): sortable_data = list(map(lambda s: (lower(s), s), data)) sortable_data.sort() return map(lambda s: s[1], sortable_data) Shane