Does Python 3 string ordering depend on locale?

问题

Do Python's str.__lt__ or sorted order characters based on their unicode index or by some locale-dependent collation rules?

回答1:

No, string ordering does not take locale into account. It is based entirely on the Unicode codepoint sort order.

The locale module does provide you with a locale.strxform() function that can be used for locale-specific sorting:

import locale

sorted(list_of_strings, key=locale.strxfrm)

This tool is quite limited; for any serious collation task you probably want to use the PyICU library:

import PyICU

collator = PyICU.Collator.createInstance(PyICU.Locale(locale_spec))
sorted(list_of_strings, key=collator.getSortKey)

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26505661/does-python-3-string-ordering-depend-on-locale