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

depends on how the data needs to be sorted, but something like this can work

l = ['a',3,4,'b']
sorted([str(x) for x in l])
['3', '4', 'a', 'b']