On 3 June 2011 07:17, Martin Pool <m...@canonical.com> wrote: [...] > Maybe as a simple place to start there should just be a "compare human > strings" function that can be passed to sort(cmp=) and at least the > .lower() will not be repeated. [...] > Maybe we should actually use locale.strcoll, rather than comparing the > lowered forms? <http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html> istr > this is rather better on non-English names. For en_AU.UTF-8 it is > case insensitive, though it is case sensitive in C.
Fwiw, the cmp argument to list.sort() and sorted() is deprecated, and is gone in Python 3. However, I think strxfrm() can be used instead of strcoll(), i.e. sorted(names, key=locale.strxfrm) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
