[BangPypers] Sort names in a list by order of importance

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:06 PM, S Pratap Singh <kdarious at gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to sort list with names and without loosing the alphabet case (lower
> or upper). In each list last name is important and should get priority in
> sorting. If there are two or more name similar to the last name in the
> list. Then the last name should be printed first before another similar
> names.
>
> Also we need to sort the name based on the initials (sir name). If the name
> does not have initial then the first name should be considered as initial.
>
>
> There are no asterisks in the list
>
> mylist =
> ["Alan","aLan","alAn","alaN","ALan","AlAn","AlaN","aLAn","aLaN",*"alAN"*]
>
>
> I just highlighted the last name in the list as this is very important name
> and it should be printed before any other similar name in the list.
>
> Let me know if this makes sense to you.
>

Why don't you remove the last element, sort the list and insert the removed
last element at the beginning of the list?

Anand