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

import locale
from functools import cmp_to_key
iterable = [u'a', u'z', u'ą']
sorted(iterable, key=cmp_to_key(locale.strcoll))  # locale-aware sort order

(Ref.: http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/functools.html)