Python not sorting unicode properly. Strcoll doesn't help

Question

I\'ve got a problem with sorting lists using unicode collation in Python 2.5.1 and 2.6.5 on OSX, as well as on Linux.

import locale   
locale.setlocale(loca         


        

Answer 1

@gnibbler, using PyICU with the sorted() function does work in a Python3 Environment. After a little digging through the ICU API documentation and some experimentation, I came across the getSortKey() function:

import PyICU
collator = PyICU.Collator.createInstance(PyICU.Locale('de_DE.UTF-8'))
sorted(['a','b','c','ä'],key=collator.getSortKey)

which produces the desired collation:

['a', 'ä', 'b', 'c']

instead of the undesired collation:

sorted(['a','b','c','ä'])
['a', 'b', 'c', 'ä']