Sort list of strings by integer suffix in python

Question

I have a list of strings:

[song_1, song_3, song_15, song_16, song_4, song_8]

I would like to sort them by the # at the end, unfortunately s

Answer 1

You're close.

sorted(the_list, key = lambda x: int(x.split("_")[1]))

should do it. This splits on the underscore, takes the second part (i.e. the one after the first underscore), and converts it to integer to use as a key.