Sometimes, we want to sort a list of strings numerically with Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to sort a list of strings numerically with Python.
How to sort a list of strings numerically with Python?
To sort a list of strings numerically with Python, we convert the strings in the list to numbers before we sort them.
For instance, we write
list1 = ["1", "10", "3", "22", "23", "4", "2", "200"]
list1 = [int(x) for x in list1]
list1.sort()
to convert all items in list1 to ints with
[int(x) for x in list1]
and assign the returned result back to list1.
Then we call sort to sort the items in place.
Conclusion
To sort a list of strings numerically with Python, we convert the strings in the list to numbers before we sort them.
