spacepy.toolbox.human_sort

spacepy.toolbox.human_sort(l)

Sort the given list in the way that humans expect. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/12/sorting-for-humans-natural-sort-order.html

Parameters:

llist

list of objects to human sort

Returns:

outlist

sorted list

Examples

>>> import spacepy.toolbox as tb
>>> dat = ['r1.txt', 'r10.txt', 'r2.txt']
>>> dat.sort()
>>> print dat
['r1.txt', 'r10.txt', 'r2.txt']
>>> tb.human_sort(dat)
['r1.txt', 'r2.txt', 'r10.txt']