compare two python strings that contain numbers

Question

UPDATE: I should have specified this sooner, but not all of the names are simply floats. For example, some of them are \"prefixed\" with \"YT\". So for example\" YT1.1. so,

Answer 1

use s1.split(".") to create a list of the items before and after the decimal then sort the list of lists, example:

import random
sheets = list([str(x), str(y)] for x in xrange(1, 5) for y in xrange(0,99))
print sheets
#sheets in order
random.shuffle(sheets)
print sheets
#sheets out of order
sheets.sort()
print sheets
#sheets back in order

So, you implementation might be:

#assume input sheets is a list of the worksheet names
sheets = list(x.split(".") for x in input_sheets)
sheets.sort()