[Tutor] sorting file paths made up of of strings and numbers

[Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:10 PM, wesley chun <wescpy at gmail.com> wrote:

> > How can I sort the following list in a way that takes care of the right
> > order of numbers? The sorted function compares strings here as far as I
> can
> > see, but I want to have filepath2 follow filepath1. Your help is
> > appreciated.
> >>>> myList
> > ['filepath54', 'filepath25', 'filepath49', 'filepath0', 'filepath89',
> > 'filepath52', 'filepath37', 'filepath32', 'filepath2', 'filepath15',
> >        :
> > 'filepath91', 'filepath85', 'filepath9', 'filepath59', 'filepath10',
> > 'filepath30', 'filepath31', 'filepath80', 'filepath42', 'filepath74',
> > 'filepath21']
>
>
> unfortunately, we're restricted from solving your homework problems
> for you, however, we can tell you that you can still use sorted().
> just combine that with operator.itemgetter(), and you should be well
> on your way to solving your problem!
>
> hope this helps!
> -- wesley
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Thank you so much Wesley for the tip. I'll look into itemgetter()
This is not a homework problem though,  but I'm working on a paper in which
this is useful. So, it is related to school, but is by no means a homework.

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Emad Soliman Nawfal
Indiana University, Bloomington
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