Hi, I've been working on sorting out some words. My locale is : >>> import locale >>> locale.getdefaultlocale() ('es_AR', 'cp1252')
I do : >>> a = 'áéíóúäëïöüàèìòù' >>> print ''.join(sorted(a, cmp=lambda x,y: locale.strcoll(x,y))) aeiouàáäèéëìíïòóöùúü This is not what I am expecting. I was expecting : aáàäeéèëiíìï.....etc. The reason is that if you want to order some words (say for a dictionary (paper dict, where you look up words)) this is what happens : >>> a = 'palàbra de pàlabra de pblabra' >>> print ' '.join(sorted(a.split(), cmp=lambda x,y: locale.strcoll(x, y))) de de palàbra pblabra pàlabra While any human being would expect : de de palàbra pàlabra pblabra Does anybody know a way in which I could get the desired output? TIA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list