"""Natural sort. Compares numeric parts numerically. """ # Based on idea at http://code.activestate.com/recipes/285264/ # Works with both Python 2.x and 3.x # Ignores leading zeroes: 001 and 01 are considered equal import re as _re _rc = _re.compile(r'\d+|\D+') __all__ = ['natsort_key', 'natsort', 'natsorted', 'natsort_key_icase', 'natsort_icase', 'natsorted_icase'] def natsort_key(s): """Split string to numeric and non-numeric fragments.""" return [ not f[0].isdigit() and f or int(f, 10) for f in _rc.findall(s) ] def natsort(lst): """Natural in-place sort, case-sensitive.""" lst.sort(key = natsort_key) def natsorted(lst): """Return copy of list, sorted in natural order, case-sensitive. >>> natsorted(['ver-1.1', 'ver-1.11', '', 'ver-1.0']) ['', 'ver-1.0', 'ver-1.1', 'ver-1.11'] """ lst = lst[:] natsort(lst) return lst # case-insensitive api def natsort_key_icase(s): """Split string to numeric and non-numeric fragments.""" return natsort_key(s.lower()) def natsort_icase(lst): """Natural in-place sort, case-sensitive.""" lst.sort(key = natsort_key_icase) def natsorted_icase(lst): """Return copy of list, sorted in natural order, case-sensitive. >>> natsorted_icase(['Ver-1.1', 'vEr-1.11', '', 'veR-1.0']) ['', 'veR-1.0', 'Ver-1.1', 'vEr-1.11'] """ lst = lst[:] natsort_icase(lst) return lst # run doctest if __name__ == '__main__': import doctest doctest.testmod()