Sort results non-lexicographically?

Question

I\'m trying to display some results in a human-readable way. For the purposes of this question, some of them are numbers, some are letters, some are a combination of the two.

Answer 1

This will do it. For purposes of comparison, it converts strings that can be converted to an integer to that integer, and leaves other strings alone:

def key(s):
    try:
        return int(s)
    except ValueError:
        return s

sorted_input = sorted(input, key=key)