I had a case today where I needed to sort two string:
['Awards', 'Award Winners']
I consulted a few sources to get a suggestion as to
what would be correct. My first idea was to throw them
through a Linux command line sort:
Awards
Award Winners
Then I did some Googling, and found that most US systems seem
to prefer that one ignore spaces when alphabetizing. The sort
program seemed to agree.
I put the items into the database that way, but I had forgotten
that my applications used python to sort them anyway. The result
was different:
>>> a = ['Awards', 'Award Winners']
>>> sorted(a)
['Award Winners', 'Awards']
So python evaluated the space as a lower ASCII value.
Thoughts? Are there separate tools for alphabetizing
rather then sorting?
Thanks,
Tobiah
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