sorting a list numbers stored as strings

[Amit Khemka]

On 9/24/07, aine_canby at yahoo.com <aine_canby at yahoo.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have the following list -
>
> ["1", "11", "2", "22"]
>
> how do I sort it like this -
>
> ["1", "2", "11", "22"]
>

Hi,

>>> l = ["1", "11", "2", "22"]
>>> sorted(l, cmp = lambda x, y: cmp(int(x), int(y)))  # provide your
own compare function !
>>> l
['1', '2', '11', '22']

Cheers,

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