natural_sort_key¶
- sbpy.data.natural_sort_key(s)[source]¶
List sort keys considering strings of numbers as integers.
Intended to be used with
list.sort
or thesorted
built-in function.- Parameters:
- sstring
String to parse into keys.
- Returns:
- keystuple
Keys for sorting.
Examples
>>> from sbpy.data.names import natural_sort_key >>> comets = ['9P/Tempel 1', ... '101P/Chernykh', ... '10P/Tempel 2', ... '2P/Encke'] >>> sorted(comets) ['101P/Chernykh', '10P/Tempel 2', '2P/Encke', '9P/Tempel 1'] >>> sorted(comets, key=natural_sort_key) ['2P/Encke', '9P/Tempel 1', '10P/Tempel 2', '101P/Chernykh']