Sort a list of strings based on regular expression match

Question

I have a text file that looks a bit like:

random text random text, can be anything blabla %A blabla
random text random text, can be anything blabla %D blabla         


        

Answer 1

Here is a quick-and-dirty approach. Without knowing more about the requirements of your sort, I can't know if this satisfies your need.

Assume that your list is held in 'listoflines':

listoflines.sort( key=lambda x: x[x.find('%'):] )

Note that this will sort all lines without a '%' character by their final character.