Natural sort of Unicode list by numbers before characters

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scores2 = [u'4H', u'10H', u'18H', u'59H', u'84H', u'19A', u'38A', u'65A', u'88A', u'90A', u'']

Scores 2 prints out like this, Can someone show me how to remove the unicode from the list and then sort by number value only so the last letter has no manipulation of the sort?. I have seen Natural Sort but im sure this only works with the letter before the number?

Have you actually tried `Natural Sort ` or is this only a speculation? — DeepSpace, Jul 27 '15 at 17:44
"Remove the Unicode"? That's like asking how to remove a number's base. — TigerhawkT3, Jul 27 '15 at 17:46
when I export it to a .txt file and then into excel the Unicode still remains so I need to remove it. Also I have tried the natural sort and couldn't figure it out. — footystattowannab, Jul 27 '15 at 17:47
why do you have two accounts?? http://stackoverflow.com/users/5149684/footystattowannab — heinst, Jul 27 '15 at 17:48
needed answers quick and I got couldn't add new questions, so I have made a new account and abandoned the old one, thanks for your help before by the way — footystattowannab, Jul 27 '15 at 17:56
Question bans don't mean your account is broken and you need a new one; they mean your question quality needs work. — TigerhawkT3, Jul 27 '15 at 17:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '15 at 17:48

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scores2 = [u'4H', u'10H', u'18H', u'59H', u'84H', u'19A', u'38A', u'65A', u'88A', u'90A', u'']

print(sorted((x.encode("utf-8") for x in scores2 if x.strip()), key=lambda x:int(x[:-1])))
['4H', '10H', '18H', '19A', '38A', '59H', '65A', '84H', '88A', '90A']

answered Jul 27 '15 at 17:48

Padraic Cunningham

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I was about to comment you don't use re :p – heinst Jul 27 '15 at 17:49
@heinst, thought there may be more than one letter then saw in the question that there is only one at the end – Padraic Cunningham Jul 27 '15 at 17:51
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excellent that thanks ever so much – footystattowannab Jul 27 '15 at 17:56
No worries, you are just using the digits from the string to sort by slicing the letter off and calling int, `x.encode("utf-8")` just encodes the unicode string – Padraic Cunningham Jul 27 '15 at 17:57

Natural sort of Unicode list by numbers before characters

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