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The document discusses various methods for sorting, copying, joining, and manipulating lists in Python. It covers sorting lists alphabetically and numerically, sorting in descending order, customizing the sort function, performing case-insensitive sorts, reversing the order of a list, copying lists using copy() and list(), joining lists using + and append(), and using the extend() method.

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18 - Python - Sort Lists

The document discusses various methods for sorting, copying, joining, and manipulating lists in Python. It covers sorting lists alphabetically and numerically, sorting in descending order, customizing the sort function, performing case-insensitive sorts, reversing the order of a list, copying lists using copy() and list(), joining lists using + and append(), and using the extend() method.

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Python - Sort Lists

Sort List Alphanumerically


• List objects have a sort() method that will sort the list
alphanumerically, ascending, by default:
• Sort the list alphabetically:
Sort List Alphanumerically
• Sort the list numerically:
Sort Descending
• To sort descending, use the keyword argument reverse = True:
• Sort the list descending:
Sort Descending
• Sort the list descending:
Customize Sort Function
• You can also customize your own function by using the keyword
argument key = function.
• The function will return a number that will be used to sort the list (the
lowest number first):
• Sort the list based on how close the number is to 50:
Case Insensitive Sort
• By default the sort() method is case sensitive, resulting in all capital
letters being sorted before lower case letters:
• Case sensitive sorting can give an unexpected result:
Case Insensitive Sort
• Luckily we can use built-in functions as key functions when sorting a
list.
• So if you want a case-insensitive sort function, use str.lower as a key
function:
• Perform a case-insensitive sort of the list:
Reverse Order
• What if you want to reverse the order of a list, regardless of the
alphabet?
• The reverse() method reverses the current sorting order of the
elements.
• Reverse the order of the list items:
Python - Copy Lists
• Copy a List
• You cannot copy a list simply by typing list2 = list1, because: list2 will
only be a reference to list1, and changes made in list1 will
automatically also be made in list2.
• There are ways to make a copy, one way is to use the built-in List
method copy().
• Make a copy of a list with the copy() method:
Python - Copy Lists
• Another way to make a copy is to use the built-in method list().
• Make a copy of a list with the list() method:
Python - Join Lists
• Join Two Lists
• There are several ways to join, or concatenate, two or more lists in
Python.
• One of the easiest ways are by using the + operator.
• Join two list:
Python - Join Lists
• Another way to join two lists is by appending all the items from list2
into list1, one by one:
• Append list2 into list1:
Python - Join Lists
• Or you can use the extend() method, which purpose is to add
elements from one list to another list:
• Use the extend() method to add list2 at the end of list1:
List Methods

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