Python: list.sort() query when list contains different element types

Question

Greetings Pythonic world. Day 4 of learning Python 3.3 and I\'ve come across a strange property of list.sort.

I created a list of five elements: four st

Answer 1

I am writing below answer by assuming that I know the data types in the list, might not be efficient. My idea is to partition the given list into sublists based on data type, after that sort each individual list and combine.

input= ['b', 'a', 3, 'd', 'c']
strs = list(filter(lambda x : type(x) ==str,input))
ints = list(filter(lambda x: type(x) == int, input))

output = sorted(strs) + sorted(ints)