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>>> x
[',', ',', 'CHAPTER', 'Emma', 'I', 'I', 'VOLUME', 'Woodhouse',
'clever', 'handsome']
>>> x=sorted([',', ',', 'CHAPTER', 'Emma', 'I', 'I', 'VOLUME', 'Woodhouse', 'clever', 'handsome'], key=str)
>>> x
[',', ',', 'CHAPTER', 'Emma', 'I', 'I', 'VOLUME', 'Woodhouse',
'clever', 'handsome']
>>>

what do i need to do?

On May 26, 9:46*pm, notnorweg...@yahoo.se wrote:
> >>> x
>
> [',', ',', 'CHAPTER', 'Emma', 'I', 'I', 'VOLUME', 'Woodhouse',
> 'clever', 'handsome']>>> x=sorted([',', ',', 'CHAPTER', 'Emma', 'I', 'I', 'VOLUME', 'Woodhouse', 'clever', 'handsome'], key=str)
> >>> x
>
> [',', ',', 'CHAPTER', 'Emma', 'I', 'I', 'VOLUME', 'Woodhouse',
> 'clever', 'handsome']
>
>
>
> what do i need to do?

x.sort(key=str.upper)

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:46 PM, <> wrote:
>>>> x
> [',', ',', 'CHAPTER', 'Emma', 'I', 'I', 'VOLUME', 'Woodhouse',
> 'clever', 'handsome']
>>>> x=sorted([',', ',', 'CHAPTER', 'Emma', 'I', 'I', 'VOLUME', 'Woodhouse', 'clever', 'handsome'], key=str)
>>>> x
> [',', ',', 'CHAPTER', 'Emma', 'I', 'I', 'VOLUME', 'Woodhouse',
> 'clever', 'handsome']
>>>>
>
> what do i need to do?
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>

That's correct behavior for what you gave it. Example from
http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.3/whatsnew/node12.html :

>>> sorted('Monty Python') # any iterable may be an input
[' ', 'M', 'P', 'h', 'n', 'n', 'o', 'o', 't', 't', 'y', 'y']

It looks like it's sorting based on ASCII value which means all upper
case letters come before any lower case letter.

On May 27, 12:46 pm, notnorweg...@yahoo.se wrote:
> what do i need to do?

Ideally, you need to read some introductory material and stop
offloading whatever the hell it is you're doing to this group.