Hi, I am trying to sort a list of directories that correspond to kernel sources under /usr/src/linux. I wrote some code that gets a list like this: ['linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r4', 'linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r11/', 'linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r7/']
When I sort the list, I want it to go from oldest (lowest version) to newest, so the sorted list should look like this: ['linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r4', 'linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r7/', 'linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r11/'] The problem is that since the built in string comparisons compare character by character, so the sort puts 2.6.16 before 2.6.9, and -r11 before -r7. This is obviously not what I want. My question is: are there any modules or built in methods that will do a logical sort on a list like this, and sort it the way I want, or will I have to write my own sorting function? -- Evan Klitzke P.S. I know that the simplest way is just to use ls to sort by time, but it is not necessarily true that older kernel versions have an older time stamp :-) _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
