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

You could split up the list, sort, then put it back together. Try something like this:

numbers = sorted(int(i) for i in input_ if i.isdigit())
nonnums = sorted(i for i in input_ if not i.isdigit())
sorted_input = [str(i) for i in numbers] + nonnums

You'll have to do something more complicated than isdigit if you can have non-integers.

If this doesn't cover your "some are a combination of the two," please elaborate what that means and what output you expect from them.

(Not tested, but should convey the idea.)