Timo wrote:
Hello,
I don't think this should be difficult, so maybe I look over it. But I
can't seem to find the solution.
I have a list with one word and a couple of numbers. Now I want the word
to be kept in the first location and the numbers to be sorted.
So this:
[4, 6, 'word', 3, 9]
should be:
['word', 3, 4, 6, 9]
Why not:
>>> sorted(lst, key=lambda x: (0, x) if isinstance(x, str) else (1, x))
['word', 3, 4, 6, 9]
I think sorting tuple has a well-defined meaning, i.e. sort on first
item, then second, then third, etc... and there is AFAIK no restriction
that the key argument should be a number right?
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