sorting-for-humans

Sorts filenames and similar strings the way you actually want them sorted. Instead of:

1_data.json
1_thing.json
2_data.json
2_thing.json
filename_1.py
filename_10.py
filename_11.py
filename_2.py
filename_20.py
filename_21.py

We get:

1_data.json
2_data.json
1_thing.json
2_thing.json
filename_1.py
filename_2.py
filename_10.py
filename_11.py
filename_20.py
filename_21.py

Installation

pip install humansort

Usage

import humansort

list_of_strings = humansort.sort(list_of_strings)

Many thanks to Ross Reisman for bitching about questioning the status quo and inspiring this