Natural Sort

Anthony Writes Code

you can split a string with a regex!

num_splitter = re.compile('([0-9]+)')

num = re.compile('([0-9]+)')

def natural_key(s: str) -> List[str | int]:
    return [
        int(part)
        if part.isdigit()
        else part
        for part in num_splitter.split(s)
    ]

# edge case: '0300' and '300' will have the same key
# break ties by comparing the original strings
list.sort(key=lambda s: (natural_key(s), s))

# case insensitive
list.sort(key=lambda s: (natural_key(s.lower()), s.lower(), s))

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Last update: 2023-04-24