在PyPI上有一个名为natsort的第三方库(完全公开，我是包的作者)。对于你的情况，你可以采取以下任何一种方法:

>>> from natsort import natsorted, ns
>>> x = ['Elm11', 'Elm12', 'Elm2', 'elm0', 'elm1', 'elm10', 'elm13', 'elm9']
>>> natsorted(x, key=lambda y: y.lower())
['elm0', 'elm1', 'Elm2', 'elm9', 'elm10', 'Elm11', 'Elm12', 'elm13']
>>> natsorted(x, alg=ns.IGNORECASE)  # or alg=ns.IC
['elm0', 'elm1', 'Elm2', 'elm9', 'elm10', 'Elm11', 'Elm12', 'elm13']

您应该注意到natsort使用通用算法，因此它应该适用于您抛出的任何输入。如果您想了解更多关于为什么选择一个库来执行此操作而不是滚动自己的函数的详细信息，请查看natsort文档的How It Works页面，特别是特殊情况无处不在!部分。

如果需要排序键而不是排序函数，请使用以下公式之一。

>>> from natsort import natsort_keygen, ns
>>> l1 = ['elm0', 'elm1', 'Elm2', 'elm9', 'elm10', 'Elm11', 'Elm12', 'elm13']
>>> l2 = l1[:]
>>> natsort_key1 = natsort_keygen(key=lambda y: y.lower())
>>> l1.sort(key=natsort_key1)
>>> l1
['elm0', 'elm1', 'Elm2', 'elm9', 'elm10', 'Elm11', 'Elm12', 'elm13']
>>> natsort_key2 = natsort_keygen(alg=ns.IGNORECASE)
>>> l2.sort(key=natsort_key2)
>>> l2
['elm0', 'elm1', 'Elm2', 'elm9', 'elm10', 'Elm11', 'Elm12', 'elm13']

2020年11月更新

假设一个流行的请求/问题是“如何像Windows资源管理器那样排序?”(或者不管你的操作系统的文件系统浏览器是什么)，在natsort 7.1.0版本中，有一个叫做os_sorted的函数可以做到这一点。在Windows上，它将按照与Windows资源管理器相同的顺序进行排序，而在其他操作系统上，它应该像本地文件系统浏览器一样进行排序。

>>> from natsort import os_sorted
>>> os_sorted(list_of_paths)
# your paths sorted like your file system browser

对于那些需要排序键的人，可以使用os_sort_keygen(如果只需要默认值，也可以使用os_sort_key)。

注意:在使用此函数之前，请阅读该函数的API文档，以了解其限制以及如何获得最佳结果。

上面的答案对于上面给出的具体例子是有用的，但对于更普遍的自然排序问题，却遗漏了几个有用的例子。我刚刚被其中一个案例咬了一口，所以想出了一个更彻底的解决方案:

def natural_sort_key(string_or_number):
    """
    by Scott S. Lawton <scott@ProductArchitect.com> 2014-12-11; public domain and/or CC0 license

    handles cases where simple 'int' approach fails, e.g.
        ['0.501', '0.55'] floating point with different number of significant digits
        [0.01, 0.1, 1]    already numeric so regex and other string functions won't work (and aren't required)
        ['elm1', 'Elm2']  ASCII vs. letters (not case sensitive)
    """

    def try_float(astring):
        try:
            return float(astring)
        except:
            return astring

    if isinstance(string_or_number, basestring):
        string_or_number = string_or_number.lower()

        if len(re.findall('[.]\d', string_or_number)) <= 1:
            # assume a floating point value, e.g. to correctly sort ['0.501', '0.55']
            # '.' for decimal is locale-specific, e.g. correct for the Anglosphere and Asia but not continental Europe
            return [try_float(s) for s in re.split(r'([\d.]+)', string_or_number)]
        else:
            # assume distinct fields, e.g. IP address, phone number with '.', etc.
            # caveat: might want to first split by whitespace
            # TBD: for unicode, replace isdigit with isdecimal
            return [int(s) if s.isdigit() else s for s in re.split(r'(\d+)', string_or_number)]
    else:
        # consider: add code to recurse for lists/tuples and perhaps other iterables
        return string_or_number

测试代码和几个链接(在StackOverflow上和关闭)在这里: http://productarchitect.com/code/better-natural-sort.py

欢迎您的反馈。这并不是一个明确的解决方案;只是向前迈出了一步。

一个紧凑的解决方案，基于将字符串转换为List[Tuple(str, int)]。

Code

def string_to_pairs(s, pairs=re.compile(r"(\D*)(\d*)").findall):
    return [(text.lower(), int(digits or 0)) for (text, digits) in pairs(s)[:-1]]

示范

sorted(['Elm11', 'Elm12', 'Elm2', 'elm0', 'elm1', 'elm10', 'elm13', 'elm9'], key=string_to_pairs)

输出:

['elm0', 'elm1', 'Elm2', 'elm9', 'elm10', 'Elm11', 'Elm12', 'elm13']

测试

转换

assert string_to_pairs("") == []
assert string_to_pairs("123") == [("", 123)]
assert string_to_pairs("abc") == [("abc", 0)]
assert string_to_pairs("123abc") == [("", 123), ("abc", 0)]
assert string_to_pairs("abc123") == [("abc", 123)]
assert string_to_pairs("123abc456") == [("", 123), ("abc", 456)]
assert string_to_pairs("abc123efg") == [("abc", 123), ("efg", 0)]

排序

# Some extracts from the test suite of the natsort library. Permalink:
# https://github.com/SethMMorton/natsort/blob/e3c32f5638bf3a0e9a23633495269bea0e75d379/tests/test_natsorted.py

sort_data = [
    (  # same as test_natsorted_can_sort_as_unsigned_ints_which_is_default()
        ["a50", "a51.", "a50.31", "a-50", "a50.4", "a5.034e1", "a50.300"],
        ["a5.034e1", "a50", "a50.4", "a50.31", "a50.300", "a51.", "a-50"],
    ),
    (  # same as test_natsorted_numbers_in_ascending_order()
        ["a2", "a5", "a9", "a1", "a4", "a10", "a6"],
        ["a1", "a2", "a4", "a5", "a6", "a9", "a10"],
    ),
    (  # same as test_natsorted_can_sort_as_version_numbers()
        ["1.9.9a", "1.11", "1.9.9b", "1.11.4", "1.10.1"],
        ["1.9.9a", "1.9.9b", "1.10.1", "1.11", "1.11.4"],
    ),
    (  # different from test_natsorted_handles_filesystem_paths()
        [
            "/p/Folder (10)/file.tar.gz",
            "/p/Folder (1)/file (1).tar.gz",
            "/p/Folder/file.x1.9.tar.gz",
            "/p/Folder (1)/file.tar.gz",
            "/p/Folder/file.x1.10.tar.gz",
        ],
        [
            "/p/Folder (1)/file (1).tar.gz",
            "/p/Folder (1)/file.tar.gz",
            "/p/Folder (10)/file.tar.gz",
            "/p/Folder/file.x1.9.tar.gz",
            "/p/Folder/file.x1.10.tar.gz",
        ],
    ),
    (  # same as test_natsorted_path_extensions_heuristic()
        [
            "Try.Me.Bug - 09 - One.Two.Three.[text].mkv",
            "Try.Me.Bug - 07 - One.Two.5.[text].mkv",
            "Try.Me.Bug - 08 - One.Two.Three[text].mkv",
        ],
        [
            "Try.Me.Bug - 07 - One.Two.5.[text].mkv",
            "Try.Me.Bug - 08 - One.Two.Three[text].mkv",
            "Try.Me.Bug - 09 - One.Two.Three.[text].mkv",
        ],
    ),
    (  # same as ns.IGNORECASE for test_natsorted_supports_case_handling()
        ["Apple", "corn", "Corn", "Banana", "apple", "banana"],
        ["Apple", "apple", "Banana", "banana", "corn", "Corn"],
    ),

]

for (given, expected) in sort_data:
    assert sorted(given, key=string_to_pairs) == expected

奖金

如果字符串混合了非ascii文本和数字，您可能会对将string_to_pairs()与我在其他地方给出的函数remove_diacritics()组合感兴趣。

试试这个:

import re

def natural_sort(l): 
    convert = lambda text: int(text) if text.isdigit() else text.lower()
    alphanum_key = lambda key: [convert(c) for c in re.split('([0-9]+)', key)]
    return sorted(l, key=alphanum_key)

输出:

['elm0', 'elm1', 'Elm2', 'elm9', 'elm10', 'Elm11', 'Elm12', 'elm13']

代码改编自这里:排序人类:自然排序顺序。

我建议您简单地使用关键字参数sorted来实现所需的列表 例如:

to_order= [e2,E1,e5,E4,e3]
ordered= sorted(to_order, key= lambda x: x.lower())
    # ordered should be [E1,e2,e3,E4,e5]

>>> import re
>>> sorted(lst, key=lambda x: int(re.findall(r'\d+$', x)[0]))
['elm0', 'elm1', 'Elm2', 'elm9', 'elm10', 'Elm11', 'Elm12', 'elm13']