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Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 15:25:36 -0400
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On 05/02/2015 11:35 AM, Pander Musubi wrote:
> On Monday, 24 December 2012 16:32:56 UTC+1, Pander Musubi  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to sort according to this order:
>>
>> (' ', '.', '\'', '-', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', 'A', 'ä', 'Ä', 'á', 'Á', 'â', 'Â', 'à', 'À', 'å', 'Å', 'b', 'B', 'c', 'C', 'ç', 'Ç', 'd', 'D', 'e', 'E', 'ë', 'Ë', 'é', 'É', 'ê', 'Ê', 'è', 'È', 'f', 'F', 'g', 'G', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'I', 'ï', 'Ï', 'í', 'Í', 'î', 'Î', 'ì', 'Ì', 'j', 'J', 'k', 'K', 'l', 'L', 'm', 'M', 'n', 'ñ', 'N', 'Ñ', 'o', 'O', 'ö', 'Ö', 'ó', 'Ó', 'ô', 'Ô', 'ò', 'Ò', 'ø', 'Ø', 'p', 'P', 'q', 'Q', 'r', 'R', 's', 'S', 't', 'T', 'u', 'U', 'ü', 'Ü', 'ú', 'Ú', 'û', 'Û', 'ù', 'Ù', 'v', 'V', 'w', 'W', 'x', 'X', 'y', 'Y', 'z', 'Z')
>>
>> How can I do this? The default sorted() does not give the desired result.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pander
>
> Meanwhile Python 3 supports locale aware sorting, see https://docs.python.org/3/howto/sorting.html
>

You're aware that the message you're responding to is 16 months old?

And answered pretty thoroughly, starting with the fact that the OP's 
desired order didn't match any particular locale.



-- 
DaveA